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

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

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denied clemency for Wendell Arden Grissom, clearing the way for his March 20, 2025 execution for the 2005 murder of Amber Matthews, a crime prosecutors described ...

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 the first person ...

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

Christopher Lightsey, the man who is on death row for a murder he committed in 1993 in Kern County, was resentenced to death ...

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 ...

Federal prosecutors alleged Ronaldo Ayala, reputed to be a powerful member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang, conspired with the Sinaloa cartel and offered to protect its notorious former leader, ...

Ayala, who was transferred last year from San Quentin to Centinela state prison as Gov. Gavin Newsom shut down death row, has yet to ... has no contact with other inmates. San Diego has produced ...

The Aryan Brotherhood gang formed in 1964 in California’s San Quentin prison, as the state carceral system desegregated and racial conflict broke out between the newly integrated inmates.