OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma board rejected clemency on Wednesday for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion robbery, clearing the way for him to become ...

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church during a robbery was facing execution ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Thursday what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the ...

William Milne's editorial emphasises the need to focus on your passions, and to realise that other things are important than your career.

Aaron Castro spoke with 3NEWS about the film & healing after a tragedy that changed his entire family and the lives of those ...

On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at assisting states in carrying out capital punishment. The order empowers the Attorney General to ensure the availability ...

Four convicted killers housed in a women's wing of a Scots prison have become embroiled in a transphobic hate row, a court has heard.

It is the second time in a year justices have given another chance to a high-profile Oklahoma death row inmate with an innocence claim. Justices last January agreed to consider Richard Glossip's ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a rare ruling in favor of a death row inmate, finding that an Oklahoma woman convicted of murdering her estranged husband can pursue a claim that prosecutors ...

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences to life in prison without parole, as they seek to appeal their cases ...

On Friday, Bowman opted to select death by lethal injection. In South Carolina, death row inmates are given the choice of dying by lethal injection, electric chair or firing squad. Like Owens and ...