The Nigerian Correctional Service has disclosed that no fewer than 3,688 prisoners are on death row across its various facilities in the country. The acting Comptroller General of the NCoS ...

JASMINE. ELIZABETH, LOUISIANA, HAS NOT HAD AN INMATE ON DEATH ROW EXECUTED IN 15 YEARS. THE INMATE THAT WAS SCHEDULED TO BE PUT TO DEATH NEXT MONTH DIED JUST WEEKS BEFORE HIS EXECUTION DATE.

From a distance, Billionaires’ Row in Pacific Heights looks like it’s worlds away from the rest of San Francisco. Lined with historic, multimillion-dollar mansions reportedly owned by tech ...

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls ...

“Christopher Sepulvado’s death overnight in the prison infirmary is a sad comment on the state of the death penalty in Louisiana.,” Shawn Nolan, an attorney for Sepulvado, said in a statement.

Convicted child-killer Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died in custody Saturday night after spending 30 years on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, attorney Shawn Nolan said in an ...

Death by firing squad and medical-aid in dying, taking an oral solution of drugs mixed with apple juice, are alternative execution methods that would be more “humane,” Hoffman’s attorneys said.

Texas death row inmate David Leonard Wood's execution, which had been set for this week, was halted by a Texas appeals court on Tuesday. Wood, 67, has spent nearly 33 years on death row and had ...

Back when he was put on death row, the assumed execution method was a lethal injection, but those drugs have been hard to come by in recent years --leading to a backlog on death row and now the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carr ...

One of the five teens arrested in the Valentine’s Day stabbing death of a 15-year old boy at Santana Row was set to appear ... and all five are affiliated with a San Jose gang, according to ...

The Pacc Act aims to prevent abuse of court processes. It sets out steps that death row inmates have to take before filing further applications to delay their executions after they have exhausted ...