A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas ...

Facing an execution date of March 13, time is short. USA TODAY Death Row Reporter Amanda Lee Myers had an exclusive sit-down ...

Had Wood been executed this week, he would have spent 32 years and two months on Texas’ death row, the longest time ... on the clothing Smith wore found a male DNA profile that was not Wood.

Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) - The sentence of Kentucky’s longest-held death row inmate has been upheld by a federal appeals court.

WEST CHESTER — Chester County has a tangled history with the death penalty. Since 1978, when capital punishment was approved by the state Legislature after having been dormant since a state Supreme ...

British man Thomas Parker was arrested in Bali, Indonesia, and if convicted faces the death penalty by firing squad ...

Also this year, three male death row inmates, aged 87, 76 and 71, respectively, died of illness before their sentences could be carried out. The average age of death row inmates now stands ...