Alabama has set an execution date for an inmate who dropped his appeals this summer and asked to be put to death.

Jurors voted 9-3 that he serve life in prison. However, the judge sentenced Myers to death under Alabama’s now-abolished system that let judges decide death sentences. Ivey said there was ...

The Nigerian Correctional Service has disclosed that no fewer than 3,688 prisoners are on death row across its various facilities in the country. The acting Comptroller General of the NCoS ...

A group of former prosecutors has filed a brief urging a Jefferson County judge to grant a new trial for Alabama Death Row inmate Toforest Johnson. “Given that both the current Jefferson County ...

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls ...

FROM A JUDGE ON WHETHER THE USE OF GAS TO EXECUTE A DEATH ROW INMATE IS CONSTITUTIONAL ... IT’S AN EXECUTION STYLE RECENTLY USED FOUR TIMES IN ALABAMA. WITNESSES TALK ABOUT EYES BULGING ...

An Alabama high school graduate is among three suspects charged in connection with the off-campus hazing death of a student from a historically Black Louisiana university. Kyle Thurman ...

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed his name on a bill Wednesday making Idaho the only state in the U.S. to have a firing squad designated as the preferred execution method for capital punishment ...