NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were denied ...

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

A death row inmate could be the seventh scheduled for execution in the past 10 months after a Lexington County judge decided ...

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

Attorneys for death row inmate Byron Black are asking a judge to step in ahead of his scheduled execution, arguing that a ...

South Carolina’s electric chair is located in Columbia at the Broad River Correctional Institute. The state has not carried out an execution since May 2011. The death penalty is on hold while ...

Death-row inmate Ralph Menzies appeals his competency ruling for execution, continuing to cite his dementia diagnosis. A district judge ruled Menzies understands his crime's severity and is ...

Panetti spent half his life on death row, first at the Ellis Unit, from 1995 to 2000, in Huntsville, Texas, and then the Allan B. Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months. Stephen Stanko, 57 ...