This year, 48 people are expected to be executed in the U.S. Meanwhile, fewer new death sentences are being issued, and ...

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.

For his final feast, murderer Stacey Humphreys — who is approximately 6-foot-3 and weighs 305 lbs. — has asked for full ...

A federal judge said Wednesday that she plans to rule quickly on whether to halt the execution next week of a Georgia man who ...

DeWine has been consistently reluctant to carry out capital punishment. Might that culminate in historic policy shift before ...

A Utah man who was spared execution this fall after developing dementia during his 37 years on death row died Wednesday of apparent natural causes, according to the state’s Department of Corrections.

Ralph LeRoy Menzies, who spent more than 37 years on Utah’s death row for kidnapping and killing a young mother in 1986, died on Wednesday at an area hospital, prison officials announced. He was 67.

A Louisiana man who spent nearly three decades on death row is out on bail NEW ORLEANS -- A Louisiana man who spent nearly three decades on death row has been released on bail Wednesday after his ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA. (KLFY) — An Angola death row inmate was granted bail by a district judge after spending nearly three decades on death row. Jimmie Duncan has been released from Louisiana State ...

The fight goes on over Erie's lone death row inmate and the use of dog DNA as evidence at his trial nearly 25 years ago. The inmate, Stephen Treiber, has appealed his conviction to the 3rd U.S.

Two people were put to death last week. The first happened when Florida carried out the execution of Bryan Jennings. Jennings had been convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping, sexual battery, ...

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt granted clemency on Thursday to death row inmate Tremane Wood, reducing his sentence to life in prison without parole hours before his scheduled execution. Governor Stitt ...