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

A South Carolina man will be put to death next month after spending nearly 20 years on death row. 41-year-old Mikal D. Mahdi ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, amid lack of DNA evidence.

A Texas appeals court has halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die ...

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

Former Texas death row inmate John Henry Ramirez’s story is told in the documentary short, “I Am Ready, Warden,” which is up for an Academy Award this Sunday. The Houston attorney who won ...

After nearly three decades maintaining his innocence on Oklahoma’s death row, Richard Glossip this week now has the opportunity to win his freedom after the US Supreme Court ordered he receive a ...

CHARLOTTE — A man on death row in South Carolina chose a brutal form for his execution, but he’s still fighting to stay alive. Brad Sigmon was convicted of beating two people to death with a ...

A Listeria outbreak linked to recalled frozen supplemental shakes has resulted in one death in North Carolina and at least 12 deaths nationwide. Twelve deaths have been reported as part of an ...

Richard Glossip was convicted of murdering his boss more than twenty years ago, and has been on death row in Oklahoma ever since. Glossip has always maintained his innocence. After a years-long ...

Attorneys for a man awaiting execution in South Carolina contend an autopsy report ... of a stay of execution for the 67-year-old death row inmate. Sigmon is scheduled to die March 7.

Hoffman, who has spent well over half his life on death row in Louisiana, remains focused on those around him, they say. He was moved last week to an isolated area within the state penitentiary at ...