An obese Georgia death row inmate requested a greasy, gluttonous buffet-style spread packed with thousands of calories for his last meal, scheduled for next week. Stacey Humphreys, 52, will be put to ...

An obese man on death row in Georgia has requested a buffet-style spread consisting of high-calorie meats and other treats for his last meal. Stacey Humphreys, 52, is scheduled to be executed by ...

A man who spent more than a quarter-century on death row for the robbery and murder of a woman at an Ohio hotel had his case dismissed Friday by prosecutors. Elwood Jones has been free since shortly ...

A 58-year-old Florida death row inmate claimed that prison officials used expired drugs and skimped on the doses for the last four executions in the state, according to a bombshell lawsuit filed a ...

SAN JOSE — A Santa Clara County judge on Friday rejected a proposed settlement between prosecutors and convicted murderer Erik Chatman that would have given parole eligibility to the man who once ...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday, Dec. 15, to hear the appeal of a Mississippi death row inmate whose case involved a prosecutor with a history of racial bias in jury selection. Terry Pitchford ...

A Georgia death row inmate has requested a greasy, calorie-laden feast for his last meal ahead of his scheduled execution next week. Stacey Humphreys was scheduled to die by lethal injection the night ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — After years of covering murder trials, death-row appeals and, once, an execution itself, I’ve learned this much: the death penalty asks us to believe in finality, even as it rarely ...

JACKSON, Georgia — Georgia's Department of Corrections on Thursday released the last meal request for Stacey Humphreys, a death row inmate convicted of killing two women in Cobb County in 2003 who is ...

An Alabama Reflector analysis of executions in the state over the past decade shows five of the state’s 67 counties account for almost half of the total number of death sentences imposed since 2012.

Karen Pulley, 20, was brutally beaten and raped in the home she shared with two other women on Sept. 30, 1988. During a three month period spanning the end of 1988 and beginning of 1989, Nichols raped ...

If I had to use one word to describe the ethos of the courtroom last week, it was a simple one — sad. The 80-year-old defendant, a man who’s been on death row for half a century, was slight, slumped ...