yet he has already spent more than half of his life on death row. 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 ...

Over Six Saturdays from Feb. 1 to March 8, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., at Emmanuel Parish Hall, learn about Buddhism through an ...

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

An Oklahoma board has rejected clemency for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion ...

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board on Wednesday voted 4-1 to deny clemency to a death row inmate who said last month he is ...

The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The ...

Texas death row inmate Steve Nelson was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday night, closing his final words with an ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was killed via lethal injection on Wednesday evening - the second execution in the country this ...

and there was no designated area for female death row prisoners to be held. So, she was imprisoned at Central Prison in Raleigh, NC, in an area for escape-prone prisoners and those with mental ...

About 20 inmates have been taken off death row and received different prison sentences after successful appeals. Others have died of natural causes. The United States Supreme Court on Thursday denied ...

(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 ...