The man scheduled for execution this month in Tennessee has declined to choose an execution method, which is what stopped ...

The state attorney's office will seek the death penalty for David Barber, who is charged with kidnapping and murdering a ...

In March, South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon, who was sentenced to death for killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a ...

Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed on June 25, the state Supreme Court ruled ...

Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled.

A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...

The man convicted of starting a fire near Cabazon that killed five firefighters will remain on death row, after the California Supreme Court ruling published Monday found no validity to his arguments ...

George Ryan, who served as Illinois secretary of state, Illinoia House speaker, lieutenant governor and ultimately governor, ...

Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled to die on May 22, declined to select a method meaning it ...

Under Governor Gavin Newsom's administration, California has shifted its death row policy, transferring condemned individuals ...

Gov. Ryan purged Illinois' death row just three days before his term ended, though he never regretted the decision.

A judge ruled Bryan Kohberger, who is autistic, according to his lawyers, could still be put to death if he is convicted of ...