A federal judge has ruled against a man on Georgia’s death row who argued that lethal injection could cause him excruciating ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mothed one final message before being put to death in Texas ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A condemned man who is the next person scheduled to be put to death in South Carolina is again asking ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

A Tennessee death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, the quality of ...

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 ...

The US carried out a double state killing on Thursday, with two states executing intellectually disabled death row inmates.

Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it ...

From the daily newsletter: an editor’s note from Daniel Zalewski. Plus: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; ...

New United States Attorney General Pam Bondi has granted a request to transfer a convicted murderer in federal custody to the ...

This is not in any way lessening due process for those who are convicted and are facing the death penalty,” said Rep. Bruce ...