Twenty-five men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S. Nine other people are scheduled to be put ...

The reversal reflected a growing struggle over the use of ballot measures to answer policy questions in Republican-led states ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A Missouri judge has blocked many of the state's anti-abortion laws. The order Thursday by Jackson County Circuit Judge Jerri ...

Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 execution. In Nashville’s ...

Wayne Osmond, 73. A singer, guitarist and founding member of the million-album-selling family act The Osmonds, who were known ...

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

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

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decried the Supreme Court 's involvement in a death row case in his dissent from the case on Thursday.