Byron Black, a 69-year-old man on Tennessee's death row, has formally petitioned Governor Bill Lee to commute his death ...

A Houston-area man convicted of killing his wife died this week after more than three decades on death row, marking the ...

Death Row inmates have private cells equipped with a bed, shower, and toilet located near the execution chamber. The night before their execution is often sleepless, with many using this time for ...

Attorneys for Ralph Menzies are requesting another review to determine whether the 67-year-old death row inmate with dementia ...

From behind bars, the former Death Row CEO recounts Shakur's final hours — and the surreal ritual that followed.

By age 46, Bob Williams had spent more than half his life in isolation, waiting to die on San Quentin's death row.

The longest-serving person from SWFL on death row is Harold Lucas from Lee County. Convicted for the 1976 murder of Jill ...

Nor has any death row prisoner received a commutation since Bob Graham granted one for the last time in 1983. Since then, Florida has carried out 110 of 111 executions under the death penalty ...

Death watch is the two-day period before an execution when a death row inmate is placed under 24-hour observation and stricter rules. Smith's execution is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. on May 22.

Death row inmates are served three meals a day: at 5 a.m., from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., and from 4 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Meals are prepared by prison staff and delivered to the cells in insulated carts.

A man who was on death row for nearly half a century has been executed in Mississippi. Richard Gerald Jordan died by lethal injection on Wednesday aged 79 after spending almost 50 years in prison.

Alabama has set an execution date for a man convicted three decades ago of shooting a woman in the head while she slept.