The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 24 in the case of a man on Texas death row who has long tried to obtain postconviction DNA testing on evidence that he says would exonerate him. Rube ...

No capital punishment has been approved by the Supreme Court for a second year in a row in India. The last hangings in India ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

Every week, behind a half dozen security doors that lead to Unit 2—Tennessee’s death row—Kevin Burns holds a worship service. He leads Communion, prayer, liturgy, and a sermon with men who share his ...

Led by Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, and with a celebrity fan base that includes Taylor Swift and Caitlin Clark, the ...

A Philadelphia jury found Le guilty of two counts of first-degree murder on Dec. 1, 2016, and he arrived at SCI Phoenix on July 17, 2020. The case was Pennsylvania's first death sentence of that year.

Each of the men have been given an extra three years, due to problems with the pharmaceutical supply chain, the release said.

A Tennessee death row prisoner who murdered a teen couple from Chickamauga, Georgia has declared a hunger strike, saying he ...