Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 execution. In Nashville’s ...

A Clarion Ledger reporter recounts what it was like to witness Mississippi’s execution of Richard Jordan, who spent nearly 50 ...

In 2008 and 2009 police interviews, Tupac Shakur murder suspect Duane "Keefe D" Davis made claims about Sean "Diddy" Combs' ...

Japan's worst criminals face their death inside a highly secretive execution room located inside a nondescript office block.

Most of the 23 states that still have an active death penalty allow a certain number of journalists to witness executions, as ...

Sunny Jacobs, who died in a house fire in Connemara this week, became a 'poster child' for the worldwide lobby of those opposed to the death penalty, having spent five years on death row in the 1980s.

Jordan has been on death row in Mississippi since 1977 for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter, the wife of a Gulfport bank executive.

Lisa Jo Chamberlin was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 2006. She was denied post-conviction relief by the Mississippi Supreme Court.

A man on Alabama’s death row wants his execution to go forward this week, saying he believes in an “eye for an eye.” “The reason I dropped my appeals is I am guilty of murder,” James ...

Powers' attorneys asked the court to reconsider, but their decision will stand, they announced on March 11. Mississippi's death row: A closer look as AG Fitch seeks execution dates for prisoners ...

The county has a larger death row population per capita than the home counties of Los Angeles, Miami or San Diego. And it has more people on death row than all but 21 of the more than 3,000 ...

Muscarello says he believes people who commit vicious crimes should be punished. "Actions have consequences, and like I've stated earlier, death row is for the worse of the worse.