A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

More than three years after his execution was stayed, an upcoming hearing will address death row inmate Ramiro Ibarra’s ...

A prisoner accused of beating her cellmate to death at Wisconsin's women's prison almost two years ago pleaded no contest Monday to homicide.

BEIRUT (AP) — Sayeh Seydal, a jailed Iranian dissident, narrowly escaped death when Israeli missiles struck Tehran’s Evin ...

Japan’s most recent execution, in July 2022, was of a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in ...

Those executed included Thomas Gudinas, whose mental illness was shaped by his abusive upbringing and neglect, and Richard ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, was executed in Mississippi for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter. Jordan, a Vietnam veteran, apologized to the victim's family before the lethal injection.

The Associated Press reported that Richard Gerald Jordan is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi State ...