Michael Wade Nance, on Georgia's death row for a 1993 murder, argued that lethal injection could cause him severe pain due to ...

A federal judge has ruled against a man on Georgia’s death row who argued that lethal injection could cause him excruciating ...

A Tennessee death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, the quality of ...

New United States Attorney General Pam Bondi has granted a request to transfer a convicted murderer in federal custody to the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A condemned man who is the next person scheduled to be put to death in South Carolina is again asking for his execution date be postponed because his lawyers have not received ...

Arizona has set an execution date for a convicted killer on death row, marking the state's return to the death penalty after ...

Now 20 years later, those who know him say he's a deeply faithful man who has become so gentle, he recently hand-raised a baby lizard in his cell on Texas Death Row. "The man I was 20 years ago is ...

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

Meanwhile, Sims on Monday asked 22nd District Judge Alan Zaunbrecher to set an execution date for Jessie Hoffman, who was sent to death row for the 1996 killing of Mary “Molly” Elliot ...

A memo from Pam Bondi asked prosecutors to pursue the death penalty for groups including immigrants illegally residing in the ...

Warning: This story contains details of a disturbing crime. Florida death row inmate James Dennis Ford was so overcome with grief after his father's death, his former wife says she would find him ...