Byron James Shepard was in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, awaiting execution for the fatal shooting of a Tecumseh police officer.

Oklahoma has executed death row inmate John Hanson for the 1999 carjacking and murder of a 77-year-old woman and an innocent bystander. Hanson was executed Thursday morning at the Oklahoma State ...

Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, who is challenging his conviction in a 1997 murder-for-hire plot, poses for a photograph taken by his attorney in U.S., in 2016.

An Oklahoma County jail inmate accused of pistol-whipping a woman for her car outside a casino has died. Everett D. Edwards, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...

When a person is placed on Death Row, usually, people think their final moments are bleak - but one person’s last hours have ...

More than 200 Civil rights groups urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to use his powers to commute California's more than 500 death ...

The court had earlier vacated Darrell Robinson's conviction and death sentence in a brutal quadruple murder in Rapides Parish ...

Next month, the state of Florida will officially be allowed to use new means of executing prisoners on death row — with some ...

In a 6-3 ruling Thursday by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court said federal courts can review Ruben Gutierrez’s challenge to ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...