JASMINE. ELIZABETH, LOUISIANA, HAS NOT HAD AN INMATE ON DEATH ROW EXECUTED IN 15 YEARS. THE INMATE THAT WAS SCHEDULED TO BE PUT TO DEATH NEXT MONTH DIED JUST WEEKS BEFORE HIS EXECUTION DATE.

An Approximation of Resilience” by Alex Ketley uses dance to explore a real-life murder case and California’s justice system.

The Nigerian Correctional Service has disclosed that no fewer than 3,688 prisoners are on death row across its various facilities in the country. The acting Comptroller General of the NCoS ...

Texas death row inmate David Leonard Wood's execution, which had been set for this week, was halted by a Texas appeals court on Tuesday. Wood, 67, has spent nearly 33 years on death row and had ...

Holberg has been on death row for 27 years. In securing her conviction in 1998, Randall County prosecutors heavily relied on testimony from a jail inmate who was working as a confidential ...

Convicted child-killer Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died in custody Saturday night after spending 30 years on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, attorney Shawn Nolan said in an ...

Editor's note: A previous version of this story included Jarrell Neal as a death row inmate. Neal's death sentence was thrown out by an appeals court in 2023. Louisiana is set to execute its first ...

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls ...

ANGOLA, La. — Christopher Sepulvado, an 81-year-old Louisiana death row inmate scheduled for execution on March 17, has died of “natural causes” before he was to be executed, as our partners ...

“Christopher Sepulvado’s death overnight in the prison infirmary is a sad comment on the state of the death penalty in Louisiana.,” Shawn Nolan, an attorney for Sepulvado, said in a statement.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed his name on a bill Wednesday making Idaho the only state in the U.S. to have a firing squad designated as the preferred execution method for capital punishment ...