Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.

Ironically, as this country gets closer to abolishing death as a punishment, that progress does not bode well for the inmates ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a challenge by a death row inmate in Oklahoma who claims prosecutors “sex-shamed” her during her trial, referring to her as a “slut puppy” and holding up her thong ...

When she began writing letters to a man on Texas’ death row, Noa Dubois had no intention of finding a husband. Instead, the ...

Lawyers for an Alabama Death Row inmate set to die next week said there was a “simple, straightforward option” to guarantee the inmate doesn’t have excess pain during his nitrogen execution ...

The death row inmate continues to maintain his innocence. But “he cannot in good conscience ask for a supposed mercy that would require him to spend the rest of his life in prison for a crime he did ...

Biden commuted the sentences of nearly every inmate on federal death row last month, a move The White House celebrated as the largest single-day of clemency actions in modern history.

A Frenchman on death row in Indonesia since 2007 for drug offences left prison on Tuesday ahead of his transfer to France, ...

The world's longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government pay him more than $1.3 million in compensation after his conviction was quashed, his lawyer said Thursday.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCIV) — Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed ... Despite spending 23 years on death row, Bowman has maintained his innocence.

Two inmates on federal death row whose death sentences were commuted by President Joe Biden are asking a judge to block the clemency action. Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis said in separate ...