Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

Howard Willis was sentenced to death in 2010 for the murders eight years earlier of newlyweds Adam Chrismer, 17, and Samantha ...

35-year-old Regis Darnell Jackson was found unresponsive in his cell by jail officers Wednesday morning. Emergency medical ...

Georgia remains the only state where it must be proven “beyond a reasonable doubt,” the highest standard of proof in law.

DeKalb County, GA — The DeKalb County Jail has reported its first inmate death of the year. A spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Office said jail staff responded to a medical emergency on the morning of ...

Regis Darnell Jackson, 35, was found unresponsive inside a housing unit Wednesday morning, according to officials.

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

Nearly four decades ago, public outrage over the execution of Jerome Bowden, a man with an IQ of 65, spurred Georgia ...

The former talk show host, 60, is currently under a court-order guardianship, confined to a New York assisted living facility ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die ... rejected a request from Bowman's current lawyers to postpone his execution ...

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...