The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear an appeal by a Texas man who faces the death penalty for his role in the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of a Texas man on death row who has long argued that DNA testing would help prove ...

Richard Moore, who killed a Spartanburg store clerk while committing a robbery, is next in line for a state execution.

Texas rarely grants clemency for death row inmates, but that’s not stopping a group of bipartisan lawmakers from showing ...

Many state prison inmates in Texas, including people on death row, are eligible to vote — and might not even know it.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KSWO) - One of Oklahoma’s most infamous death row inmates could have his fate decided at the highest court ...

The Mississippi attorney general on Tuesday requested an execution date for the state’s longest-serving death row inmate.

Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the ...

The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Iwao Hakamada — who is believed to be the world's longest-serving death row inmate — has been acquitted 58 years after his arrest Per local reports, Hakamada's ...

As of April, according to a recent disclosure by the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) spokesperson, Abubakar Umar, a total of 3,504 inmates were on death row in Nigeria, comprising 73 females ...

South Carolina’s high court on Friday set a date of Nov. 1 to put to death a man who killed a store clerk a quarter-century ago, the second of an expected six ...

A Missouri death row inmate sentenced to death for a 1998 murder will have his case reviewed by the state Supreme Court ahead of his scheduled execution on Tuesday. Attorneys for Marcellus ...