The PennLive podcast “Death County, PA” has risen to the top spot of Apple’s ranking for top ‘Podcast Series.’ ...

Then-new Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they ...

FAYETTE COUNTY, Pa. - Officials say a Berks County man died while serving time at a state prison in western Pennsylvania. 41-year-old Thomas Gray Jr. was found unresponsive in his cell last Thursday ...

Alabama has executed a man who said he was guilty of a woman's rape and murder and deserved to die. Fifty-five-year-old James Osgood received a lethal injection Thursday evening at a south Alabama ...

A man on Alabama’s death row wants his execution to go forward this week. James Osgood told The Associated Press in an ...

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 ...

94 inmates are currently on death row in Pennsylvania, but the commonwealth hasn't executed anyone since the 1990s. A moratorium on executions in Pennsylvania was instated in 2015 by former governor ...

SHREVEPORT, La. – The Louisiana Supreme Court late Friday put the brakes on execution plans for two Caddo Parish death row inmates. The ruling puts the cases back before a Caddo District Court ...

SOMERSET, Pa. (WTAJ) — After three hours of deliberation, a jury has handed down the death penalty to Paul Kendrick. Kendrick is the second youngest person to be on death row in the Commonwealth, as ...

SOMERSET, Pa. (WTAJ) — After three hours of deliberation, a jury has handed down the death penalty to Paul Kendrick. Kendrick is the second youngest person to be on death row in the Commonwealth ...

In his final weeks in office, Democratic President Joe Biden recently converted to life in prison the sentences for 37 of the 40 federal death row inmates.