Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater ...

Death penalty cases are increasingly rare in the Bay Area, especially after Gov. Gavin Newsom implemented a moratorium on executions in 2019 and moved to dismantle San Quentin prison’s death row.

California death row inmate Julian Mendez killed in Kern Valley State Prison allegedly involving more than 30 inmates, with Mario Renteria as the alleged initial attacker.

When asked at a Wednesday press conference if the death penalty was on the table, Texas Game Warden Captain Joseph Quintero replied that the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has only filed ...

The agreement only applied to people on death row whose requests to have their appeals reheard were denied by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals while the judicial emergency was in place.

The Death Penalty Information Center maintains the largest national death sentence database. Of nearly 10,000 cases nationally since 1972, about 49% were later reversed, according to an analysis ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma prosecutors will retry longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip a third time for his role in the 1997 killing of his former boss, Attorney General Gentner Drummond ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma prosecutors will pursue a murder charge, but not the death penalty, against longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip for his role in the 1997 killing ...

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months. Stephen Stanko, 57, was pronounced ...

Following two state executions of death row inmates in less than six months, Gov. Mike Braun said June 3 that Indiana does not have any more of the drug used and he does not "intend to put another ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that a Memphis judge did not have the authority to give a man formerly on death row concurrent sentences of life in prison. The ...