Andrew Hill said he was being threatened by other prisoners over his debt, said a Prison and Probation Ombudsman report ...

The convicted killer, 79-year-old Richard Jordan, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, June 25, at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison farm, according to the ...

Teresa Youngblut is alleged to have taken part in a shooting in which a US border agent was killed in Vermont.

The US Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state's laws governing DNA testing. The majority opinion was written by ...

The Indiana Attorney General’s Office requested an execution date on Friday for death row inmate Roy Lee Ward, the Spencer ...

The U.S. Supreme Court issued nine opinions on Thursday and Friday, headlined by its decision on Trump v. CASA, Inc., which ...

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

The court had earlier vacated Darrell Robinson's conviction and death sentence in a brutal quadruple murder in Rapides Parish ...

A Texas death row inmate has standing to bring a §1983 due process claim challenging the state’s postconviction DNA testing ...

California currently has 574 individuals on death row, the most in the nation, while being the most populous U.S. state.

This is the third time Todd Kelvin Wessinger's death sentence was vacated and remanded back to state court for a new trial ...

Alabama plans to carry out another nitrogen gas execution in August, continuing its use of the controversial method amid ongoing debates over mental health concerns.