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

This article contains graphic details about execution. Death sentences (execution) are painful, confusing, and sad decisions ...

Attorneys for death row inmate Byron Black are asking a judge to step in ahead of his scheduled execution, arguing that a ...

A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

Richard Jordan, the longest-serving and oldest person on Mississippi's death row, was executed on June 25 for the 1976 murder ...

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

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

More than three years after his execution was stayed, an upcoming hearing will address death row inmate Ramiro Ibarra’s ...

After four trials, 79-year-old Richard Gerald Jordan was executed in Mississippi for the 1976 murder of Edwina Marter, a ...