On the day that Louisiana’s first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the inmate are hoping for a ...

Marcus Mitchell has advocated for access to a high school education for individuals on death row for nearly two decades. Now, ...

Elliott's mother and husband remembered her as a loving woman who lit up every room. Her killer is set to become the first ...

Nine inmates on Tennessee’s death row have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s new lethal injection protocol citing a ...

Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute ...

Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still ...

State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her ...

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...

A death row killer is set to be executed with a controversial method that his state bans using on cats and dogs ...

The murder conviction for a Texas woman who'd been on death row for decades was thrown out last week after a federal appeals ...

Bixby has been on death row since he was convicted of killing Abbeville County Deputy Danny Wilson and Constable Donnie Ouzts ...

A lawsuit was filed Friday by nine death row inmates against the state of Tennessee regarding plans for their executions.