Convicted triple murderer Byron Black was executed by lethal injection on August 5 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution ...

A San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department deputy died Monday after he was shot while responding to a domestic violence ...

A man who killed his girlfriend, and her two daughters, was given a dose of legal injection, but his heart continued to beat.

Separated from the general prison population, Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours a day alone in their cells.

An Alabama death row inmate used his final words to maintain his innocence before being suffocated to death with nitrogen gas ...

For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three decades he's spent as Inmate No. 00999306 in a small, isolated prison After 27 years on Texas Death Row, Charles ...

Texas woman convicted of gruesome murder appeals death sentence, claiming prosecutors used humiliating evidence improperly.

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

Ohio's death penalty law is in limbo. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: the status quo isn't working.

By: Casey Smith Indiana Capital Chronicle For The Republic After three executions in less than a year — ending a nearly ...

Bishops in multiple U.S. states are leading efforts to spare the lives of condemned prisoners facing execution.

Lindsay Sandiford, the 69-year-old British grandma, who was on death row for over 12 years has broken her silence after ...