With Tennessee days away from carrying out its first execution since 2020, death row inmates are asking a Davidson County ...

Attorneys for Ralph Leroy Menzies, who's been on death row for 37 years, sought to convince a Utah state judge that the ...

Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they have a bittersweet new lease on life.

John Fitzgerald Hanson is set to be executed by lethal injection June 12 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

Under Governor Gavin Newsom's administration, California has shifted its death row policy, transferring condemned individuals ...

As the Rodney Hinton Jr. case begins to get underway in court, we now know that it will be a death penalty case. However, recent history shows that it is much easier said than done to successfully ...

During the pandemic, California released about 15,000 prisoners early. About a third ended up back in prison by the start of ...

Gov. Ryan purged Illinois' death row just three days before his term ended, though he never regretted the decision.

A group of federal prisoners filed a lawsuit this week accusing the Trump administration of seeking to move them to a supermax prison to face tougher conditions as punishment for having their ...

Lamont Cousins enters the courtroom for the closing arguments in the sentencing phase of his trial on Wednesday, April 30, at the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center in Fort Worth. Cousins was found ...