The collection to be auctioned includes journals and cookbooks that inmate Albert Jones has written from death row. The ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood has made a career of fighting to save men the state wants to kill — and it doesn't matter if they're ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Bruce Ward, a convicted murderer who was the longest-serving inmate on Arkansas’ death row, has died ...

District Attorney James Stewart filed the motion Monday asking for an execution date for murderer Darrell Dewayne Draughn.

Attorneys for a South Carolina death row inmate whose execution is imminent are making a last-ditch argument that their client is incompetent to be executed partly because of his belief that he is ...

Wakayama (Japan) (AFP) – Since his teenage years, Koji Hayashi has dreaded one thing: his stubborn, once-vivacious mother ...

Lawyers for a death row inmate in Florida are trying to ... forms of cruel and unusual punishment. An appeal filed last Monday cites the inmate’s litany of health issues spurred by his obesity ...

Brunswick County Sheriff James Woodley now denies ever advocating for Mikal Mahdi's life in an interview with a reporter ...

A new book called The Volunteer is looking at the death penalty in America through the eyes of Nevada inmate Scott Dozier, who volunteered to be executed after being sentenced to death.