A 63-year-old murderer who has been on death row since 1991 was put to death on Wednesday as the 12th execution this year in ...

In letters posted on a new website, the former doomsday cult leader maintains his innocence and says he hopes his musings ...

New Hampshire's Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of Michael Addison, the state's only inmate on death row.

The state of Texas is again trying to execute Robert Roberson, a man diagnosed with autism who was convicted of the murder of ...

Robert Roberson, who is set to be executed on Oct. 16 for the death of his 2-year-old, maintains that the state used faulty evidence to convict him, pointing to the debunked "shaken baby" diagnosis.

James Robertson’s current S.C. Department of Corrections picture in 2025. A Rock Hill man who has been on South Carolina’s death row for 26 years for killing his parents wants to drop his appeal and ...

Prejean, a prominent death penalty advocate, and others want the California governor to commute the sentence of every ...

Henry MCCollum still dreams about death row at Central Prison, where he spent half his life for a crime that he didn’t commit. McCollum and his brother Leon Brown were exonerated in 2014 after ...

A death row prisoner in Arkansas is begging the state to kill him, but his death wish is being stalled by a lawsuit from 10 other inmates trying to stop a highly controversial execution method. Scotty ...

In 2006, I was sentenced to death for a crime I didn’t commit. The jury in my case was split 8-4 about the death sentence. Eight people thought I should be executed, and four people thought I should ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Attorneys for death row inmate Byron Black are asking the Supreme Court to step in as questions loom about his intellectual ability. Black is scheduled to die next Tuesday ...

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