Governor Landry announced that the La. Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented an updated ...

I Am Ready, Warden,” nominated for an Oscar, follows John Henry Ramirez in the days before he was executed in Texas for murder. It also spotlights the sons of both Ramirez and his victim.

The phrase “dead man walking” is applied to a prisoner on death row headed to execution, or someone sure to be fired from a job.

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected a death row inmate’s request for information on the most recent execution, which was carried out last week.

Demetrius Terrence Frazier broke into the window of Brown's apartment on Nov. 27, 1991, before demanding money and raping her at gunpoint.

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state’s suddenly busy death chamber ...

Alabama death row inmate becomes fourth prisoner to be executed with nitrogen gas - Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, was ...

Alabama death row inmate Demetrius Frazier became the first person executed while in the custody of the state of Michigan Thursday night.

Alabama executed Demetrius Frazier for the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown two days before Thanksgiving.

A Texas man has been executed for the killing of a Dallas area pastor who was attacked in his church during a robbery.