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

The Rev. Jeff Hood has made a career of fighting to save men the state wants to kill — and it doesn't matter if they're ...

A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its ...

A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded US$1.44 ...

The morbidly obese killer’s defense team argued his planned lethal injection would violate the Eighth Amendment, which protects against forms of cruel and unusual punishment.

A last-ditch effort from attorneys of a death row inmate argue that his beliefs about being a "sovereign citizen" could be considered insanity and should spare him from execution.

A convicted murderer who was the longest-serving inmate on Arkansas' death row has died of natural causes LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Bruce Ward, a convicted murderer who was the longest-serving inmate ...

Lawyers for a death row inmate in Florida are trying to stay his execution next week, arguing that it would be unconstitutional given the prisoner’s morbid obesity, which could complicate his ...

In only the second case of its kind in recent US history, a South Carolina death row inmate has opted for execution by firing ...

A 46-year-old man convicted of rape and murder is to be put to death by nitrogen gas in the southern state of Louisiana on ...