A journalist witnesses his 11th execution at a South Carolina prison, reflecting on the violence and tension of the firing ...

Six death row inmates have been executed in the U.S. so far this year, compared to two by this time last year.

Idaho is looking to renovate its death row to accommodate firing squad executions, but contractors are shying away from ...

When a South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat steps into the death row chamber Friday ...

Twenty-eight states as well as the U.S. military and U.S. government authorize the use of lethal injection, in which an ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with an Oklahoma death row inmate who claimed alongside the state itself that his trial was unfair, ordering a new trial and staving off his execution.

Meanwhile, Louisiana plans to execute a Death Row inmate in March using another controversial ... while three others – California, Oregon and Pennsylvania – have moratoriums in place.

Kim Kardashian is being sued after allegedly misidentifying a man on Instagram as a death row inmate last year. Kardashian attempted to bring awareness to Texas death row inmate Ivan Cantu and ask her ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip’s murder conviction because a key witness lied in court and prosecutors withheld information about him.

Richard Glossip, a longtime death row inmate, will get a new trial after the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the prosecutors withheld evidence and provided the jury with faulty testimony from ...

JASMINE. ELIZABETH, LOUISIANA, HAS NOT HAD AN INMATE ON DEATH ROW EXECUTED IN 15 YEARS. THE INMATE THAT WAS SCHEDULED TO BE PUT TO DEATH NEXT MONTH DIED JUST WEEKS BEFORE HIS EXECUTION DATE.

Hoffman, Sepulvado and seven other inmates are plaintiffs in a federal civil rights lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Louisiana's death penalty. Lawyers for the group filed an emergency ...