A Nevada death row inmate is requesting a court hearing, pursuing what federal public defenders say is his right to the clemency process.

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

Death Row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson was convicted of murder after suffocating a pastor in his own church during a robbery, ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the day before his scheduled ...

Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking the first execution in South ...

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 ...

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.

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. (AP) — After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ask the governor for clemency, saying he didn’t want to spend the ...

Bowman's execution would be South Carolina's third in four months as it works through a backlog of death row inmates whose appeals were exhausted during a lengthy delay in lethal injections.