A Tennessee death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, the quality of ...

Arizona has set an execution date for a convicted killer on death row, marking the state's return to the death penalty after ...

Raymond Lee Oyler set a fire that killed five firefighters in 2006. The California Supreme Court will decide if he remains on death row, writes Robin Epley of The Sacramento Bee.

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

Suge Knight Reveals Snoop Dogg’s Reaction to 2Pac’s Punch Suge Knight, the controversial co-founder of Death Row Records, has ...

Civil society experts’ abolitionist view on the death penalty is at odds with the public’s anger and want for retributive ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital punishment in 1965.

Death Row inmates are given one final request before they die. The Mirror takes a look at the strangest and bizarre prison ...

yet he has already spent more than half of his life on death row. He cannot in good conscience ask for a supposed mercy that ...

Marion Bowman Jr. is a grandfather, a poet and a death row inmate. Prison officials in South Carolina plan to execute Bowman by lethal injection on Friday for the murder of 21-year-old Kandee Martin ...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment ... a nonviolent drug charge for a man who previously served a prison sentence for ...