For the first time in five years, an inmate has been added to Nebraska's death row bringing the total to 12. Here's ...

Texas’ highest criminal court has overturned the death sentence of a Harris County man who was on death row for nearly half a century.

Every year, thousands of prisoners in the U.S. are placed in solitary confinement, where they endure isolation, abuse, and mental suffering. This practice might soon become rarer for some inmates in ...

The judge is to send his report by tomorrow to the Florida Supreme Court, which had stayed James Duckett’s execution.

An Alabama man who was outside a building when a man was killed in an armed robbery is looking at life as "a gift from God" after being granted clemency by the state’s governor just days before he was ...

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 former death row inmates to the federal "supermax" prison in Colorado, ruling the move likely violated their Fifth ...

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Governor Jeff Landry and Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill say they want to clear Louisiana’s backlog of death row inmates. The state executed convicted murderer-rapist ...

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from longtime Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed, dealing a major blow to his years-long fight to test crime-scene evidence he says could prove his innocence - ...

Ohio’s death row wait time now stretches longer than 22 years, with more and more inmates dying from natural causes—or by ...