A man who was on death row for nearly half a century has been executed in Mississippi. Richard Gerald Jordan died by lethal ...

Twenty-four men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and five other people are scheduled to be ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ended its work for the session, but this week marks the anniversaries of two landmark decisions on ...

On June 24, death row inmate Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke, ...

LAMAR, S.C. -- A deputy trying to arrest a suspect in a South Carolina home was ambushed, shot and killed early Tuesday while ...

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

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman ...

A man has been charged with murder after a woman was shot and killed and 9 others were injured during a Juneteenth ...

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection.