A Houston-area man convicted of killing his wife died this week after more than three decades on death row, marking the second condemned prisoner to die behind bars in the past month. Prison officials ...

A Missouri judge blocked many of the state's abortion restrictions Thursday, reimposing a preliminary injunction against them ...

June saw the loss of several influential figures in music, sports, and beyond. Brian Wilson was the creative force behind The ...

Attorney General Todd Rokita has asked the Indiana Supreme Court to set an execution date for the man who killed a Dale, ...

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence. Since the ...

The Missouri Supreme Court last week issued a warrant for the execution of Lance Shockley, who recently exhausted his state ...

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence.

The five death row inmates in post-conviction relief are Larry Roy, Antoinette Frank, Robert Miller, Marcus Reed and Davie ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill is asking the Louisiana Supreme Court to review five death row post-conviction relief cases and develop standards for district courts to use.

Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving death row prisoner, made a last-minute appeal ahead of his scheduled execution. Jordan filed a certiorari petition with the U.S. Supreme Court over ...

The Legal Defense Fund's Death Row USA report showed 2,180 people with pending death sentences this year, down from 3,682 in 2000. Missouri's peak year was 1997, when 96 people were on death row.