Steven Nelson is scheduled to be executed Wednesday, more than a decade after he was convicted of smothering a 28-year-old ...

Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday ...

The fate of a Canadian who has been on death row in Montana for the past 42 years has been thrown into more uncertainty as ...

Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking the first execution in South ...

Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death in almost every racial and ethnic group in the United States.

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A ...

Texas inmate Cesar Hernandez details the execution day for Ramiro Gonzales in an essay for the Prison Journalism Project.

Academy Awards are just around the corner, and a documentary on a Texas death row prisoner is receiving recognition. Called "I Am Ready, Warden," the Oscar-nominated film deals with convicted murderer ...

"What their story shows is that redemption is possible, even in the most horrific of circumstances," Rev. Jeff Hood said of ...

The state’s interest in capital punishment appears to have cooled, according to available data, influenced by cultural shifts ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

he faces death on 28 February in Huntsville, Texas. Life and Death Row captures the campaign for Ivan Cantu in the weeks leading up to his scheduled execution date as his supporters challenge the ...