A Chancery Court judge says the state must disconnect the heart defibrillator shortly before the inmate's August execution to ...

A new program in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, allows death row prisoners to mingle outside of solitary confinement ...

With Michael Bell's execution in Florida on Tuesday, the U.S. has now had more executions in any given year since 2015, when ...

Idaho’s only maximum security prison could soon be home to Bryan Kohberger, the man who admitted to the 2022 gruesome killings of four University of Idaho students in ...

The Office of the Federal Public Defender in Little Rock, which just celebrated 30 years, is looking to the future with a ...

The defense lawyer for a man accused of killing the top Democratic leader in the Minnesota House and her husband, and ...

Florida is set to execute its eighth inmate in 2025. Since 1939, five people from Treasure Coast have been executed. See how ...

For the first time in decades, Texas death row inmates are experiencing a change in daily life: no handcuffs, no solitary, ...

The program allows the selected prisoners to spend several hours a day outside their cells and allows them to enjoy communal meals, TV time, prayer circles and - for the first time in decades - direct ...

"The death penalty debate, which has raged through much of our nation’s history, has returned with new urgency." ...