A man who has served nearly three decades on death row in Louisiana has had his conviction overturned by a judge ...

Idaho won’t be able to carry out the death penalty until prison officials increase witness access for executions.

A bill moving in the state House this week would reintroduce the electric chair and firing squads as part of the death ...

A lawsuit filed on behalf of 21 inmates seeks to prevent them from being transferred to a notorious federal supermax prison ...

Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie's clemency hearings are set for the coming weeks as his legal team fights to delay ...

In a last-minute legal maneuver, attorneys for death row inmate Jeffrey Hutchinson filed a motion Wednesday with the Supreme Court of Florida seeking a stay of his scheduled execution. Hutchinson, who ...

The district attorney says they plan to appeal the April 23 overturning of Jimmie Duncan’s 1998 murder conviction. A ...

On Tuesday, House Bill 270 moved to its next committee. The bill changes the go-to execution method from lethal injection to ...

Allegations of custodial deaths and police misconduct remain among Malaysia’s most pressing human rights issues, Amnesty ...

North Carolina lawmakers will discuss a bill Tuesday that would give death row inmates the option to choose between three execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, or firing squad.

Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear an appeal from a Mississippi death row inmate. Willie Cory Godbolt had ...

Pee Wee Gaskins was the friendliest and most sociable serial killer Dick Harpootlian has ever met. “You like killing, just ...