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

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

Then-new Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they ...

Judge Steven Hippler denied a motion on Tuesday from Bryan Kohberger's defense team that asked to remove the death penalty as ...

After finding Cousins, 48, guilty of capital murder last week, a jury in Criminal District Court No. 3 in Tarrant County on ...

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

The top federal prosecutor in Luigi Mangione's case has been recused, according to a letter to Judge Margaret M. Garnett on ...

A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...

A man who has served nearly three decades on death row in Louisiana has had his conviction overturned by a judge.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Mississippi death row inmate’s convictions for the slayings of eight people, ...

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