SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - A hearing was held Thursday, April 17 in Caddo District Court for a death row inmate who is trying to appeal his sentence. A death warrant for Darrell Dewayne Draughn, 54, was ...

It really doesn’t take much to end up on death row. And that fact collides head-on with the constitutional amendment that I and other Oklahomans voted for in 2016 to formally protect the death ...

The Supreme Court has commuted the death sentence of Shahid Azeem, a Norwegian-Pakistani citizen, to life imprisonment. Azeem was convicted by the Additional Sessions Judge in Islamabad for the ...

One of the oldest living serial killers in the country uttered a death row confession after 17 years of keeping the gruesome slaying under wraps. Gary Michael Hilton, 78, was convicted for the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - In just days before his scheduled execution, one South Carolina inmate on death row has filed a petition for clemency with Gov. Henry McMaster, asking to commute the sentence ...

In 2024, nearly one in four (130) death row prisoners were in UP, the most populous state in India that also has the highest number of prisoners. Gujarat (71), Maharashtra (42) and West Bengal (37 ...

He loved his family with all of his heart and we cherish the times we spent with him," the six-time Grammy nominee's family wrote in a statement after his death. "Earl's music inspired countless ...

A TEEN girl stabbed her cousin's boyfriend to death in a "murderous rage" after a row on a night out, a murder trial has heard. Paige Poulton is on trial accused of killing Jack Cadwallader ...

A 380lb killer has been executed after his lawyers claimed he was too overweight for lethal injection. Michael Tanzi, branded a 'fledgling serial killer,' was put to death just after 6pm on ...

April 9 (UPI) --Florida on Tuesday evening executed a 48-year-old death row inmate who kidnapped and murdered a woman in 2000, marking the state's third execution in 2025 and the United States ...

An astounding 175 of those inmates were sentenced from Los Angeles County courts, giving L.A. the dubious distinction of holding more men (and three women) on death row than any state except Florida.

After news broke in early April 2025 that the U.S. Department of Justice would direct prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the suspect charged with killing UnitedHealthcare ...