Oklahoma lawmakers urge legal reconsideration for the case of death row inmate Kendrick Simpson, pushing for passage of Death ...

The former death row inmate is asking to be released on bond in part because of health issues his attorneys called ...

Since executions resumed in Sept. 2024, seven men have been executed by lethal injection and firing squad in South Carolina.

That Biden commuted those federal sentences at all was somewhat surprising. He had campaigned on ending the death penalty, but once in office he sat on the issue, only turning to it a month after ...

The Supreme Court will hear the appeal of a Mississippi death row inmate whose case involved a prosecutor with a history of ...

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 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 ...

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On this date in 1996, Death Row Records released its first and only Christmas album, a holiday project that arrived during one of the most painful moments in the label’s history. The compilation ...

At 44 executions and three more on the schedule, 2025 is on track to be the deadliest year on American death rows in more than a decade. Texas has, by far, led the nation in executions since the death ...

Read full article: Judge demands DNA evidence list in Tommy Zeigler case Death row inmate William "Tommy” Zeigler, photographed at age 75. WINTER GARDEN, Fla. – For the first time in decades, a judge ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Death row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies, whose execution by firing squad was put on hold in August so he could have a new competency hearing, has died of natural causes. The Utah ...