Stephen Stanko, a South Carolina death row inmate, chose lethal injection after a firing squad execution was criticized as ...

A majority have been transferred from the former death row at San Quentin State Prison to be housed with the general population at other maximum security prisons. The last prisoner executed in the ...

Languages: English. The final hours tick away for two inmates on death row in Texas and Utah who are set to be executed by lethal injection this week. Texas will execute Arthur Lee Burton ...

SAN FRANCISCO — By age 46, Bob Williams had spent more than half his life in isolation, waiting to die on San Quentin’s death row. Williams was 18 when he raped and murdered 40-year-old Mary ...

added that the vast majority of inmates on federal death row were grateful for Biden's decision, "which is constitutionally authorized and absolute." The Justice Department's Office of the Pardon ...

and the number of people on death row, about 2,250. Public support for the death penalty, meanwhile, remained at a five-decade low, 53%. But the report’s most important finding for the future of ...

An Arizona death row prisoner asked the state's highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier than authorities were aiming for, pushing as he had in the past to have ...