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 ...

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 ...

The Tokyo High Court on March 13 decided to allow a retrial for an 87-year-old former boxer who spent decades on death row for four murders he insists he did not commit. The decision followed the ...

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

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

There have been several high-profile challenges to planned executions but many more that never see the light of day. Why is it so difficult for people on death row to have their cases reexamined?