Ironically, as this country gets closer to abolishing death as a punishment, that progress does not bode well for the inmates ...

Rejon Taylor told Newsweek that he had received notice he would be transferred to ADX Florence, a "supermax" facility known ...

The death row inmate was convicted of murder in 2002 and is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection on Friday.

Texas inmate Cesar Hernandez details the execution day for Ramiro Gonzales in an essay for the Prison Journalism Project.

There are currently three people on federal death row. As far as states go, there are nine that executed prisoners last year, three holding their first executions in more than a decade.

A Branchville man convicted of murder in Dorchester County is scheduled to die Jan. 31 after the court allowed a pause in ...

"If forgiving your enemy is not weakness, what is it?" Sr. Helen Prejean, a leading voice in the abolition of the death ...

Christopher Bell's dog Titan attacked 54-year-old Ian Langley while he was walking his puppy, leaving him with fatal neck ...

Lawyers are fighting to save a man’s life by calling on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to recall a prisoner who was extradited to ...

A death penalty hearing was to be heard before the judge on Monday, but that was delayed. As has been the case numerous times, this was yet another setback in the progress of the case against Shannon ...

Sanjay Roy was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Sealdah sessions court for the rape and murder of an on-duty doctor at ...