Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled.

A Texas man convicted of fatally strangling and stabbing a young mother more than 20 years ago was executed Wednesday evening as the vi ...

Moises Mendoza, sentenced to death for the 2004 murder of Rachelle Tolleson, was given a lethal injection at the Texas State ...

After five years on Texas' death row, convicted rapist and killer Moises Sandoval Mendoza ... Mendoza graduated from high ...

as well as isolation in dungeons and death by electrocution. Over the years, the 20th century rebuild of the prison had fallen into a state of disrepair, and by 1986, the state had put the ...

And with more than 200 death-row exonerations in the U.S. — including 11 in Ohio — who would seriously argue we should rush that process? I know families who have lost loved ones to murder and ...

Former death row inmates who had their sentences commuted by former President Joe Biden are suing the Trump administration over its plans to send them to a supermax prison. President Donald Trump ...

Former death row inmates who had their sentences commuted by former President Joe Biden are suing the Trump administration over its plans to send them to a supermax prison. President ... row inmates ...

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 ...

UTICA, N.Y. — An 11-count indictment unsealed in Oneida County Court accuses two Mid-State Corrections Officers of murder in the second degree in connection with the beating death of inmate ...