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

Idaho won’t be able to carry out the death penalty until prison officials increase witness access for executions.

A bill moving in the state House this week would reintroduce the electric chair and firing squads as part of the death ...

A lawsuit filed on behalf of 21 inmates seeks to prevent them from being transferred to a notorious federal supermax prison ...

Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie's clemency hearings are set for the coming weeks as his legal team fights to delay ...

Defendant asked for ‘everything,’ and ‘everything’ is what he received,” the judge wrote. “Defendant cannot demand everything under the sun and then complain about the weight of all the planets.” ...

Idaho prison officials must allow media witnesses at executions to watch as lethal injection drugs are prepared and administered to a condemned person, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

In a last-minute legal maneuver, attorneys for death row inmate Jeffrey Hutchinson filed a motion Wednesday with the Supreme Court of Florida seeking a stay of his scheduled execution. Hutchinson, who ...

The district attorney says they plan to appeal the April 23 overturning of Jimmie Duncan’s 1998 murder conviction. A ...

Allegations of custodial deaths and police misconduct remain among Malaysia’s most pressing human rights issues, Amnesty ...

North Carolina lawmakers will discuss a bill Tuesday that would give death row inmates the option to choose between three execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, or firing squad.

On Tuesday, House Bill 270 moved to its next committee. The bill changes the go-to execution method from lethal injection to ...