A Mississippi Supreme Court has denied a post-conviction rehearing appeal for death row inmate Richard Jordan.

Missouri inmate ... and was put to death 11 hours later making him the second execution in the state and the seventh in the United States. Hosier landed on death row after a unanimous decision by a ...

In the death chambers of the Mississippi Delta, on a rainy night in an Indiana penitentiary, and in the early hours at an ...

After a nearly two-week search in the rugged mountains of northern Arkansas, authorities recaptured Hardin on Friday 1.5 ...

May saw the death of a retired U.S. Supreme Court justice who came the high court as a Republican but became a favorite among liberals during his time on the bench.

Funding new stadiums for the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals with Missouri tax dollars may be a tough sell for state lawmakers, ...

Before Rogers’ death, the most recent U.S. execution was in Florida and took place May 1, when Jeffrey Hutchinson, 62, died by lethal injection for the 1998 shotgun slayings of his girlfriend and her ...

An orange cat slinks through a neon puddle outside a gas station; a donut store sign flickers; and then there’s the scene outside Oklahoma State ... prison, but to have a loved one on death row ...

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state ... Missouri and Wyoming - do not list a specific gas to use. According to protocol, Alabama ...

The vast majority of death-row inmates whose ... an inmate at a federal penitentiary in Texas in 2001. Agofsky was serving a life sentence for robbing a bank in Missouri along with his brother ...

Missouri’s peak year was 1997, when 96 people were on death row. After reaching ... Eugene Creech in February — the state’s first since 2012 — but corrections department workers couldn ...