Ronald Smith, 67, is originally from Red Deer, Alta., and has been on death row since 1983, a year after he and another man, high on LSD and alcohol, shot and killed two young Indigenous cousins ...

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...

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 ...

For his death row meal, Moore, 57, requested two green apples, two red apples, a tray of fresh fruit, and two two-litre bottles of Coca-Cola. In the early 1900s, Mathias Kneißl was a German ...

Despite spending 23 years on death row, Bowman has maintained his innocence. Last month, he released a four-page statement asserting he did not kill Martin. Lindsey Vann, Bowman's death penalty ...

William Zeigler was convicted in 1976 of murdering four people inside his Winter Garden furniture store on Christmas Eve, 1975.

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The world’s longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government pay him more than US$1.3 million in compensation after his conviction was quashed ...

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

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCIV) — Death row inmate Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old Dorchester County native, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking 2025's first execution in South Carolina.

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A commutation, which reduces or removes a sentence but does not imply innocence ...

Bowman, who has been on death row for more than half his life, was offered a plea deal for a life sentence but went to trial because he said he was not guilty. Friday’s execution will follow the state ...

Only three inmates remain on federal death row and all have appeals that must be resolved before their executions can be carried out. Just hours after returning to the White House last Monday ...