A death row inmate in Oklahoma was preparing for his scheduled execution Thursday when Gov. Kevin Sitt spared his life. The governor announced his decision to commute Tremane Wood's sentence from ...

An Oklahoma death row inmate was hospitalized Thursday after being found unresponsive in his cell, officials said, just hours after being granted clemency on the same day he was scheduled to be ...

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 ...

Texas has, by far, led the nation in executions since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. These are the Dallas County ...

In a petition asking Utah’s parole board to spare death row inmate Ralph Menzies’ life, his attorneys detail what they say will happen if Utah executes the 67-year-old man as scheduled on Sept. 5: ...

The only woman on Tennessee's death row has been scheduled for execution more than 30 years after she brutally killed a teenage romantic rival and showed off a piece of the victim's skull to ...

A man who spent 28 years on Alabama Death Row for arranging the murder of a police officer died Sunday, a little more than a year after he was resentenced to serve life without parole. Larry Wayne ...