A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mothed one final message before being put to death in Texas Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.

United States Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to return convicted murderer John ...

A Texas man on death row, Richard Lee Tabler, uttered two desperate last words just moments before being executed by lethal ...

Arizona to execute first death row inmate in two years - Aaron Brian Gunches, who was convicted in 2007 in the 2002 shooting ...

Aaron Gunches will be the first person executed by Arizona in more than two years. His execution was scheduled for March 19.

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

An appeals court signaled it will override a military judge’s ruling that the agreements avoiding the death penalty were ...

Corey Smith, the John Doe Gang leader during the ’90s in Miami’s Liberty City, has been fighting in state and federal courts ...

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond's office advocated against clemency for Wendell Arden Grissom, who was convicted ...

Grissom’s attorneys also said they have spoken to several jurors in the case, including the jury foreman, who said they likely would not have voted for the death penalty if they knew about Grissom’s ...

Steven Nelson was convicted of the murder of Clint Dobson, the pastor of the NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, ...

Serge Atlaoui, an ailing French national who has spent almost 20 years on death row in Indonesia ahead of his return to ...