COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ask the ... yet he has already spent more than half of his life on death row.

South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted ...

A Texas inmate who strangled and suffocated a pastor inside his own church years ago revealed at the brink of his execution that he had ‘found peace’ and was ‘ready to go home.’ Steven Lawayne Nelson ...

Iouri Mikhel was sentenced to death in 2007 after being convicted of a kidnapping-for-ransom scheme in California where he abducted, held hostage, and killed five people between 2001 and 2002 before d ...

Wallace "Gator" Bradley says Mark Maxson signed a 2013 contract for help in his quest for freedom. Now Bradley is in court trying to get a share of Maxson's legal settlement stemming from the nearly ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi set the tone at the Justice Department within hours of being sworn in, issuing more than a dozen ...

"We’re generating ideas to reimagine the site. We want people to think big, think creatively and think outside the box.” ...

While some, like Secretary of State Marco Rubio, sailed through, others, like Attorney General Pam Bondi, saw their ...

After being caught, Ramirez was convicted of 13 counts of murder, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults, and 14 ...

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

SPRINGFIELD — A Republican state lawmaker from Southern Illinois claims she has received “some phone calls” from anonymous Illinois Department of Corrections employees about inmates who are ...