The Senate Corrections and Criminal Law committee discussed a bill Tuesday that would allow firing squad executions for death ...

Across the country, dozens of organizations connect people on the outside with death row inmates through pen pal programs.

Disclaimer: The article has mentions of killing. Christa Gail Pike is currently the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, ...

The concept of a "last meal" on death row is widely known, but the final words uttered by condemned individuals are often far more revealing and unsettling. History records a chilling collection of ...

The Supreme Court will hear the appeal of a Mississippi death row inmate whose case involved a prosecutor with a history of ...

Senate Bill 11 would allow the state of Indiana to execute death row inmates by firing squad if lethal injection drugs are ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana man who spent nearly three decades on death row has been released on bail Wednesday after his conviction was overturned earlier this year. Jimmie Duncan had originally ...

Group rallying for Oklahoma death row inmate Kendrick Simpson week before clemency hearing GOP lawmakers join Democrats to ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...

After six judges recused themselves, a civil judge has been assigned to oversee the retrial of former death row inmate ...

A man who spent more than a quarter-century on death row for the robbery and murder of a woman at an Ohio hotel had his case dismissed Friday by prosecutors. Elwood Jones has been free since shortly ...