Frazier is set to die by nitrogen gas for the murder of Pauline Brown in Birmingham, Alabama in 1991. Critics say the method amounts to torture.

One of Miami’s most notorious gang leaders, who for more than two decades sat on Death Row after four murder convictions, not only had his life spared Wednesday — but learned he may walk out of prison ...

Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital punishment in 1965.

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 ...

In 2002, Robert Roberson, a 57 year old man, was convicted for the death of his chronically ill two-year-old-daughter in ...

Nearly four years after their daughter’s death, the parents of Veronica Sacco are speaking out for the first time about their loss and how they are moving forward.

Before that, the law was broadly applied by DOC and former Gov. Eric Holcomb’s office to shield details about how the state ...

Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

Indonesian authorities on Tuesday escorted an ailing French national who has been on death row in the Southeast Asian country to the airport in Jakarta, marking the start ...

Bowman’s execution was the third carried out in South Carolina since 2011, when the state unofficially halted executions as ...

Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday ...