Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan died Friday morning at 91, more than two decades after leaving office for the last time and ...

Former Illinois Governor George Ryan has died at the age of 91. Former Republican State Rep. Jim Durkin confirmed Ryan's ...

The defenders of death row inmate Brittany Holberg have until May 12 to respond to a federal appeals court considering ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, disgraced by a corruption scandal that landed him in prison yet ...

Gov. Ryan purged Illinois' death row just three days before his term ended, though he never regretted the decision.

Mississippi's Supreme Court has set June 25 as the execution date for Richard Gerald Jordan, the state's longest-serving ...

Florida on Thursday evening executed Gulf War veteran Jeffrey Hutchinson for killing his live-in girlfriend and her three young children in 1998.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25.

A death row inmate was unable to convince a federal appeals court that Texas’ post-conviction DNA-testing procedures violate his right to due process on Thursday.

In a ruling Thursday, the state’s high court said Jordan had exhausted all state and federal appeals and set the execution ...