Mark Jones, who has died of a heart attack aged 59, played rugby for Wales in both codes of the game, beginning with amateur ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Oscar Franklin Smith was the first death row inmate to be executed in Tennessee in five years. Officials say he died at 10:47 a.m. Thursday morning. Outside Riverbend ...

Salt Lake City — Attorneys for a Utah man who's been on death row for 37 years sought to convince a state judge Wednesday that the convicted murderer should be spared execution because he has ...

That execution method is the state’s preferred means. In early April, Smith and death row inmate Byron Black asked Gov. Bill Lee for a reprieve on death row executions because of the state's ...

some death row inmates say the firing squad would be more humane. Currently, the state’s main method of execution is lethal injection, but death row inmates whose crimes were committed before ...

His attorneys say he still has a right to challenge his sentence. At 78, he is the oldest prisoner on Mississippi's death row and the longest-serving at 48 years. They filed a petition for a writ ...

Hodge remains on death row at the Kentucky State Penitentiary, according to the Kentucky Department of Corrections. There are 25 people on death row in the commonwealth. Two other suspects in the ...

An Indiana death row inmate set to be executed in less than two weeks is asking for the nation's highest court to intervene. Lawyers for Benjamin Ritchie wrote that their client was "sentenced to ...

Jason Lee [email protected] The S.C. Supreme Court has set the latest execution date for a South Carolina death row inmate. Stephen Stanko will be put to death on Friday, June 13, the state ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Supreme Court ruled Thursday that “numerous constitutional violations” during the trial and sentencing of a man who spent decades on death row merit a new trial.

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (WISH) — Death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie, convicted of killing a Beech Grove police officer nearly 25 years ago, had one hour to make his case that the state should spare ...

Watch: Dan Walker's chilling encounter with double murderer on death row Dan Walker faced a chilling moment in his death row documentary as he met a double murderer who made it clear that he had been ...