Nearly 50 years on death row had inflicted "extremely severe" mental and physical pain on Iwao Hakamata, a judge said.

The justices left in place a Texas appeals court ruling that upheld the murder conviction and death sentence for Areli ...

Kevin Burns says every day is the best day of his life. In his nearly 30 years on death row, he has been ordained as a pastor and started a church.

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Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

Find out what happened to Jeanine Cammarata, 37, a Staten Island teacher and mom who vanished and was later found dead and burned in her husband's storage unit.

South Carolina became the first state since 2010 to execute an inmate by firing squad. Is the method legal in Mississippi?

Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, capping a raging legal battle that ended ...

No physical evidence tied Kenneth Hartley to the 1991 kidnap/murder of Gino Mayhew, 17. Instead, prosecutor George Bateh ...

On the day that Louisiana’s first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the inmate are hoping for a ...