A man who has served nearly three decades on death row in Louisiana has had his conviction overturned by a judge ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Mississippi death row inmate’s convictions for the slayings of eight people, ...

A lawsuit filed on behalf of 21 inmates seeks to prevent them from being transferred to a notorious federal supermax prison ...

In a last-minute legal maneuver, attorneys for death row inmate Jeffrey Hutchinson filed a motion Wednesday with the Supreme Court of Florida seeking a stay of his scheduled execution. Hutchinson, who ...

Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie's clemency hearings are set for the coming weeks as his legal team fights to delay ...

North Carolina lawmakers will discuss a bill Tuesday that would give death row inmates the option to choose between three execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, or firing squad.

Allegations of custodial deaths and police misconduct remain among Malaysia’s most pressing human rights issues, Amnesty ...

A Kansas City firefighter-paramedic has died after a patient allegedly stabbed him in an “unfathomable” attack during a ...

A Louisiana judge this week set aside the first-degree murder conviction and death sentence of Jimmie Chris Duncan, whose ...

Pee Wee Gaskins was the friendliest and most sociable serial killer Dick Harpootlian has ever met. “You like killing, just ...

Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear an appeal from a Mississippi death row inmate. Willie Cory Godbolt had ...

When a military judge threw out a defendant’s confession in the Sept. 11 case this month, he gave two main reasons. The ...