A look at some of the 40 federal inmates awaiting execution on death row whose sentences were put on pause under the ...

He has also accompanied police on undercover drug buys and also provided an award winning, eyewitness account of the execution of a North Carolina death row inmate. Scott was part of the OC ...

Melissa Lucio has been on death row in Texas since she was convicted in the death of her 2-year-old daughter in 2008.

Nationwide support for the death penalty has fallen to its lowest level in decades due to shifting attitudes among younger ...

Although increased litigation costs are the largest reasons for the expense of the death penalty, they are not alone. | ...

She backed her brother, Iwao Hakamada, the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, through decades of frustrating, at times apparently hopeless, legal wrangling as his mental condition worsened.

South Carolina's Supreme Court has not set a date for the state's next execution after lawyers for four inmates out of ...

Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty if an Idaho white supremacist gang member is convicted of killing a man while he ...

Ohio death-row inmate Tyrone Noling believes DNA testing of evidence found at the scene of a 1990 double homicide could be his chance to clear his name and avoid execution, and his fate now rests with ...

I need to go the hospital, please help me,” the Minnesota man said before his death, according to the lawsuit.