Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence. Since the ...

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence.

For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — The Tennessee Supreme Court has denied a request for a competency hearing for death row inmate Byron Black despite claims from his attorneys that he no longer understands why ...

Whitfield spent nearly a decade on death row until 2003, when the Missouri Supreme Court resentenced him to life without parole. “I certainly did not feel at all distressed that he didn’t end up on ...

Ralph Menzies, a death row inmate who was convicted of the kidnapping and murder of Maurine Hunsaker in 1986, is set to ...

The Indiana Supreme Court on Monday tentatively scheduled an Oct. 10 execution date for death row inmate Roy Lee Ward, but ...

A Houston-area man convicted of killing his wife died this week after more than three decades on death row, marking the second condemned prisoner to die behind bars in the past month. Prison officials ...

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA ...

Attorney General Todd Rokita has asked the Indiana Supreme Court to set an execution date for the man who killed a Dale, ...

The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday rejected a convicted killer's latest attempt to challenge the sentence that landed him on death row. John Lotter's attorney had presented a two-pronged ...