NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 ...

A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

Currently, four states — Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma — specifically authorize execution by nitrogen hypoxia, according to records compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center.

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with a man who was convicted in the 1988 murder of Montgomery County Sheriff’s ...

The men on death row could access self-paced HSE prep programs on electronic tablets, which Central Prison gained in 2022, Acree said. And they received HSE study books in 2024, Mitchell said.

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment, according to Death Penalty Information Center: Georgia, along with ...

What to know about Biden’s death row commutations, and what happens next. Opponents of capital punishment had urged the president to commute death row sentences before Donald Trump — who ...

President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is commuting the death sentences of 37 of 40 men on federal death row. Dylann ...

When 29-year-old Christopher Edward Debord of Germantown was convicted of robbing and killing a man, the judge sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The death penalty is utilized as a form of criminal punishment in 27 states. This includes California, Pennsylvania, Oregon and Ohio, where governors have currently placed executions on hold.

As of January 1, there were 2,092 death row inmates in the U.S. There are 30 in the state of South Carolina. California has the most inmates on death row at 601.

ABC News' Linsey Davis discusses the documentary "I am Ready, Warden," which follows a death row inmate, with Smriti Mundhra and Aaron Castro.