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 ...

Gunches wants to die, but controversy surrounds execution methods in Arizona, which hasn’t killed a prisoner since 2022.

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

From the daily newsletter: an editor’s note from Daniel Zalewski. Plus: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; ...

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

Frazier was convicted of capital murder for breaking into a Birmingham woman's apartment, stealing cash, raping her at ...

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 ...