The clock has been reset for a Canadian who has been on death row in Montana for 42 years after state legislators defeated an attempt to resume executions.

ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB) - Rapides Parish District Attorney Phillip Terrell has obtained a death warrant for death row inmate Larry Roy. Governor Jeff Landry announced on Monday the Department of Public ...

governor jeff landry announced today the sentences of death row inmates in our state will be carried out...after fifteen years of not carrying out the death penalty.

From the daily newsletter: an editor’s note from Daniel Zalewski. Plus: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

Governor Landry announced that the La. Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented an updated ...

Louisiana corrections officials have drafted and approved a new policy to allow the state to restart executing death row ...

If you were wrongfully convicted of a crime in Oklahoma and got released today, the state would give you a maximum of ...

I Am Ready, Warden,” nominated for an Oscar, follows John Henry Ramirez in the days before he was executed in Texas for murder. It also spotlights the sons of both Ramirez and his victim.

The phrase “dead man walking” is applied to a prisoner on death row headed to execution, or someone sure to be fired from a job.

A man was stabbed to death with a machete by two people in a park following a row, a court has heard. Kyle Marshall, 37, died after being injured during an incident in Wellhead Fields, Bourne, ...

Attorneys for convicted murderer James Ford have filed legal briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort to ...