George Homer Ryan served one term as Illinois governor, his scandal-clouded tenure and subsequent imprisonment on federal ...

Mississippi's Supreme Court has set June 25 as the execution date for Richard Gerald Jordan, the state's longest-serving ...

Florida on Thursday evening executed Gulf War veteran Jeffrey Hutchinson for killing his live-in girlfriend and her three young children in 1998.

A death row inmate was unable to convince a federal appeals court that Texas’ post-conviction DNA-testing procedures violate his right to due process on Thursday.

In a ruling Thursday, the state’s high court said Jordan had exhausted all state and federal appeals and set the execution ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25 ...

Richard Gerald Jordan has been on Mississippi's death row since 1977. The state has set an execution date of June 25, saying ...

Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled to die on May 22, declined to select a method meaning it ...

The threat was driven by the conviction of Marco Perez, who was convicted of killing Mobile Police Officer Sean Tuder.

After the gospel singer Osinachi's death trial that dragged on for over two years, judgment was eventually delivered. The ...