Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan died Friday morning at 91, more than two decades after leaving office for the last time and ...

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

Lamont Cousins enters the courtroom for the closing arguments in the sentencing phase of his trial on Wednesday, April 30, at ...

The death of a 37-year-old man follows an assault inside the Raymond Detention Center as a federal receiver is poised to take ...

Then-new Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they ...

North Carolina lawmakers will discuss a bill Tuesday that would give death row inmates the option to choose between three ...

A man who has served nearly three decades on death row in Louisiana has had his conviction overturned by a judge.

Cory Godbolt, convicted and sentenced to death in Mississippi for killing eight people, hoped the Supreme Court would take up ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Mississippi death row inmate’s convictions for the slayings of eight people, ...

A Louisiana judge this week set aside the first-degree murder conviction and death sentence of Jimmie Chris Duncan, whose ...

The conviction of a Lincoln County man who killed eight people in 2017 will stand.The U.S. Supreme Court on April 28 denied a ...

The first Trump administration executed 13 death row inmates in 2020 and 2021 — compared to the executions of three people on ...