Byron Black, a 68-year-old man on Tennessee's death row, has filed a petition with the Tennessee Supreme Court to halt his ...

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

The longest-serving death row inmate in Mississippi's history, Richard Jordan, was executed Wednesday evening at the ...

Payne had been on death row for the killings of a woman and her 2-year-old daughter. In January 2022, Judge Paula Skahan sentenced Payne to concurrent sentences of life with the possibility of ...

California's corrections department (such as FCI San Pedro pictured in May 2020) holds the nation's largest death row block, with 574 people, among more than 94,000 prisoners statewide.

Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, was given a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman almost 50 years ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas. Gregory Hunt, 65, was pronounced dead ...

Continuing Ohio’s trend of not executing convicted criminals, Governor Mike DeWine on Friday issued reprieves for three men on death row, one of them from Clark County, delaying their scheduled ...

Clive Stafford Smith, who is retired from Death Row law, continues to campaign against the penalty and claims the US is ...

He was convicted of capital murder and sent to Alabama Death Row in 1994. Three decades later, after Barbour grew into a middle-aged man, DNA testing revealed no traces of him on the battered victim.

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas.

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas.