One of Alabama’s longest-serving death row inmates could soon receive a new trial. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a summer ruling from the 11th U.S.

Scotty Ray Gardner sent a letter addressed to Circuit Judge Charles E. Clawson asking that the court deny his pending appeal.

Oklahoma officials have locked in May 14, 2026, as the new execution date for Raymond Eugene Johnson, the Tulsa man convicted in 2009 of killing his ex-girlfriend and her 7-month-old daughter in 2007.

An Arkansas death row inmate will have a hearing in August to determine if he can end his appeals against the advice of an ...

Former death row inmate Richard Glossip is asking a judge to release him on bond while he awaits his third murder trial in the 1997 death of his boss. The 63-year-old is currently being held in the ...

Ralph Menzies spent 36 years on Utah’s death row. He died last year after his execution was stopped over competency concerns.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 inmates with commuted death sentences ...

Texas executed Charles Victor Thompson for the double murder of his ex-girlfriend, Dennise Hayslip, and her new boyfriend, Darren Cain, in 1998.

A judge who blocked the Trump administration from transferring former death row inmates said the criminals were convicted of "some of the most horrific crimes imaginable." ...

By outlawing indefinite solitary confinement for death row inmates, Oklahoma joins states like Hawaii, Connecticut, and New York, which have ended this practice in recent years. Some prisoners remain ...