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 ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...

James Robertson, a death row inmate from Rock Hill seeking to expedite his execution, should have a hearing before a court ...

A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated Black potential jurors at his 1990 murder trial.

A federal judge has denied a legal attempt, for now, to prevent the U.S. government from transferring former death row inmates to the "Supermax" in Colorado.

Michael Bell is to be executed on July 15 for murdering two people outside a Jacksonville bar Dec. 9, 1993, when he went on a ...

While the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority is pushing the law rightward, the justices appointed by GOP presidents ...

A South Carolina man who murdered his parents with a claw hammer to claim a $2 million inheritance is now demanding to be ...

The longest-serving death row inmate in Mississippi's history, Richard Jordan, was executed Wednesday evening at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.

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 ...