Prosecutors allege in a complaint filed Monday that 22-year-old Maximilian Snyder was “lying in wait” for Curtis Lind before ...

The death row inmate was convicted of murder in 2002 and is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection on Friday.

Bowman’s legal team said Friday that he maintains his innocence, while arguing that executing him would be “unconscionable” ...

The heartbroken mom called the hearings “surreal” after waiting several months to travel to LA from her home in Alabama to ...

William Zeigler was convicted in 1976 of murdering four people inside his Winter Garden furniture store on Christmas Eve, 1975.

Iouri Mikhel filed a petition seeking to block his sentence from being commuted from death to life imprisonment without ...

Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...

The Gallows is located next to the court house and sheriff’s office. It's a national historic site and the last original authentic gallows in California, according to historian and former Sierra ...

"What their story shows is that redemption is possible, even in the most horrific of circumstances," Rev. Jeff Hood said of ...

Though Trump is unable to put the commuted inmates back on death row, he did ask the attorney general in the order to “take ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

The death row prisoners in Central Jail Hyderabad are encountering mental health issues which necessitate improved healthcare services for them in the prison, Sindh Human Rights Commission (SHRC ...