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

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

Every week, behind a half dozen security doors that lead to Unit 2—Tennessee’s death row—Kevin Burns holds a worship service. He leads Communion, prayer, liturgy, and a sermon with men who share his ...

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.

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board on Wednesday voted 4-1 to deny clemency to a death row inmate who said last month he is ...

A French court commuted the sentence of Serge Atlaoui, who was allowed to return to France last week after 18 years on death ...

One of Miami’s most notorious gang leaders, who for more than two decades sat on Death Row after four murder convictions, not ...

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

In December 2024, Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row prisoners to life imprisonment without ... for a man who previously served a prison sentence for the killings of two people.

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 ...

An man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in ...

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