Then-new Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they ...

Smith, who was asked to choose between lethal injection and the electric chair, declined to pick, his attorney Kelley Henry, ...

After finding Cousins guilty of capital murder last week, a jury in Criminal District Court No. 3 in Tarrant County on ...

Richard Gerald Jordan has been on Mississippi's death row since 1977. The state has set an execution date of June 25, saying ...

Suge Knight agreed to a $1.5 million settlement on the eve of a retrial over claims he negligently killed a Compton dad.

A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...

A man who has served nearly three decades on death row in Louisiana has had his conviction overturned by a judge.

A judge ruled Bryan Kohberger, who is autistic, according to his lawyers, could still be put to death if he is convicted of ...

Chris Duncan’s longtime claims of innocence were boosted by the discrediting of bite mark analysis, and by recent reforms now ...

A judge has ruled that prosecutors can pursue the death penalty against Bryan Kohberger if he is convicted of murdering four ...