In letters posted on a new website, the former doomsday cult leader maintains his innocence and says he hopes his musings ...

New Hampshire’s only inmate on death row has been granted a rare opportunity to plead his case for a life sentence before the ...

The state of Texas is again trying to execute Robert Roberson, a man diagnosed with autism who was convicted of the murder of ...

Disclaimer: This article has mentions of killing Joseph Naso, infamously known as the “Alphabet Killer,’ was convicted of murdering Roxene Roggasch, Carmen Colon, Pamela Parsons, and Tracy Tafoya in ...

James Robertson’s current S.C. Department of Corrections picture in 2025. A Rock Hill man who has been on South Carolina’s death row for 26 years for killing his parents wants to drop his appeal and ...

Robert Roberson, who is set to be executed on Oct. 16 for the death of his 2-year-old, maintains that the state used faulty evidence to convict him, pointing to the debunked "shaken baby" diagnosis.

A death row prisoner in Arkansas is begging the state to kill him, but his death wish is being stalled by a lawsuit from 10 other inmates trying to stop a highly controversial execution method. Scotty ...

In 2006, I was sentenced to death for a crime I didn’t commit. The jury in my case was split 8-4 about the death sentence. Eight people thought I should be executed, and four people thought I should ...

Scotty Gardner wants out of “his cave” at the Varner SuperMax Prison south of Grady, Arkansas. In messages with USA TODAY, he described the conditions of his cell as, “a walk-in closet with a shower, ...

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Prejean, a prominent death penalty advocate, and others want the California governor to commute the sentence of every ...