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

The nonprofit Apache Stronghold has argued its religious freedom case all the way to the highest court in the land. On Friday, the nine justices are meeting in conference once again, and an answer may ...

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

Editor's note: A previous version of this story included Jarrell Neal as a death row inmate ... drugs and gambling with a group of people. Upset at losing at dice, Bowie demanded Smith give ...

Arizona is set to carry out its first execution since 2022. Death row inmate Aaron Gunches is set to die by lethal injection ...

White and two juvenile accomplices used a crow bar to fatally beat a blind 75-year-old and two other seniors while robbing ...

Mikal Mahdi, convicted of murdering an Orangeburg police officer, is scheduled to die on April 11; he's among 26 people awaiting execution ...

A man convicted in 1980 for a triple murder will remain on death row after a federal court upheld his sentence.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WYMT) - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the capital sentence of Kentucky’s longest-held death row inmate. Karu Gene White was convicted more than 40 years ago ...

Three elderly Kentuckians, 75-year-old Charlie Gross, 74-year-old Lula Gross and 79-year-old Sam Chaney were killed in 1979 in a general store they owned.

We understand that the public needs to isolate the people who have committed serious crimes. Most of the 36 people on death row have been in prison for an average of more than 20 years. They might ...