The Justice Department will seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing a fellow inmate at the federal government ...

Why a death row inmate is requesting execution by firing squad. The death penalty is back in the national conversation as several states are reverting to older and less commonly u ...

South Carolina plans to execute Mikal Mahdi on Friday for the murder of a police officer, draping a hood over his head and ...

An Upstate death row inmate who killed two law enforcement officers is expected to appear in court on Friday after his ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Bruce Ward, a convicted murderer who was the longest-serving inmate on Arkansas’ death row, has died ...

The collection up for sale includes journals and cookbooks that inmate Albert Jones has written from death row. The ...

South Carolina death row inmate has asked to die by firing squad just five weeks after the state carried out its first ...

No South Carolina governor has offered clemency in the 47 executions in the state since the death penalty resumed in the United States in 1976.

Iwao Hakamada, wrongfully convicted of murder, spent over four decades on death row before being awarded $1.4 million for his suffering. This payout highlights issues in Japan’s justice system.

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of the prosecutor's office that originally put him on death row. The justices ...

Then he goes back to his cell. From Unit 2 of Nashville's Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, home to Tennessee’s death row, Burns leads the Church of Life. He believes it is the nation’s ...