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 ...

A Tennessee judge has ruled that the state can deactivate a death-row inmate’s implanted heart-regulating device at a ...

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.

Bryan Kohberger, who admitted to the killings of four University of Idaho students, could be serve his sentence at a prison ...

HARRISBURG — Two men accused of homicide and facing a potential death sentence if convicted asked Pennsylvania's highest court Tuesday to restrict a county prosecutor's pursuit of the death penalty, ...

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

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 ...