Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams has been executed despite a prosecutor in the case and the victim’s family saying his life should be spared. Williams, 55, had been convicted of the 1998 ...

Florida’s death penalty laws come under scrutiny as the state ramps up executions. Amid a record-breaking year for executions in Florida, death penalty reform campaigners press for changes to the ...

As the heat index hit 105 degrees, lawyers requested swift cooling measures in a Missouri prison with no A/C. One man shares ...

A judge dismissed terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione in New York state’s case over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

A federal judge has ordered a new trial for an Alabama death row inmate after tests showed it was another man’s DNA on the victim’s body. Chief US District Judge Emily C. Marks last week ruled that ...

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson is seeking another stay of execution and a new trial after claiming the Anderson County Judiciary acted unconstitutionally multiple times in his case, citing new ...

Doris Falkenrath was fired after an investigation into the death of inmate Othel Moore at Jefferson City Correctional Center.

GREENVILLE, S.C. (WSPA) – Steven Bixby, an inmate on South Carolina’s death row, had his competency hearing in Greenville Thursday to determine if he can be executed. Bixby was sentenced to death for ...

OKLAHOMA — Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond asked the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to switch the execution dates of two death row inmates. Drummond asked for death row inmate Kendrick ...

Death row inmate Sean Shannon Finnegan pleaded guilty to child rape and aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor charges after prosecutors said he raped two Oak Ridge children in 2019. The ...

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