The case has been dropped against a man who spent a quarter-century on death row for the robbery and murder of a New Jersey woman at an Ohio hotel nearly three decades ago.

Explore the Supreme Court's recent acquittals of death row prisoners, revealing systemic flaws in India's justice system and personal stories of resilience.

Two elderly Dutch prisoners convicted of drug offences are set to leave Indonesia for the Netherlands on Monday, officials ...

Chuck Thompson has been on Texas Death Row for 27 years and is set to be executed in January. Credit: April Towery For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three ...

Danny Hembree's son says the letter does not refelct his father's real feelings. Jan. 27, 2012 — -- The son of the North Carolina death row inmate who wrote a taunting letter about his life of ...

Indonesia and the Netherlands have signed a deal to return two elderly Dutch nationals jailed in Indonesia for drug offences ...

Tommy Zeigler, on death row since 1976, may get a new trial after a hearing reviewing DNA evidence and blood spatter analysis ...

The order, which was issued Wednesday night by U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May, paves the way for Georgia to execute Humphreys next week.

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has spared the life of a death row inmate just before he was set to receive a lethal injection on Thursday, commuting the man’s sentence to life in ...

Decades ago, the Supreme Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it weighs the use of IQ ...