Michigan City residents said they would like to see housing, mixed-use development or more green space at the Indiana State Prison site. The city held the first public meeting last week on how to ...

A federal judge rejected a Georgia death row inmate's request to be executed by firing squad because he claims that lethal injection could cause him excruciating pain. Michael Wade Nance ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...

Oklahoma's only female death row inmate, whose attorneys argue was "sex-shamed" during her husband's murder trial, may have another day in court after a Tuesday Supreme Court ruling. Brenda Andrew ...

Now 20 years later, those who know him say he's a deeply faithful man who has become so gentle, he recently hand-raised a baby lizard in his cell on Texas Death Row. "The man I was 20 years ago is ...

A Florida man convicted of killing a husband and wife at a remote farm in an attack witnessed by the couple’s toddler was put to death Thursday in the state’s first execution of the year.

Indonesia and France signed an agreement Friday for the transfer of a Frenchman who has languished on death row since 2007 for alleged drug offences. "What we signed today is an agreement between ...

Meanwhile, Sims on Monday asked 22nd District Judge Alan Zaunbrecher to set an execution date for Jessie Hoffman, who was sent to death row for the 1996 killing of Mary “Molly” Elliot ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 12 death row inmates have so far been scheduled for execution in South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, Oklahoma and Ohio. On his first day ...

Nine states have put more inmates to death. But since the unintentional pause, the death row population has dwindled to 29 currently, compared with 63 in early 2011. About 20 have been taken off ...