Utah killer Ronnie Lee Gardner opted to be executed by a firing squad when he was sentenced to death and he gave a strange ...

Double murderer Brad Sigmon was put to death in South Carolina on Friday by a three-man firing squad for killing William and ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked ...

Last year, “The ABCs of Book Banning” presented surface-level facts that did little to move the needle on the important topic ...

Former Texas death row inmate John Henry Ramirez's story is told in the documentary short, "I Am Ready, Warden," which is up for an Academy Award this Sunday. The Houston attorney who won his case ...

Defendants seeking relief from capital punishment typically don’t win at the high court, but Richard Glossip’s case was a ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with an Oklahoma death row inmate who claimed alongside the state itself that his trial was unfair, ordering a new trial and staving off his execution.

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave an Oklahoma death row inmate a new chance to prove his innocence, siding with both his lawyers and the state who said Richard Glossip did not get a ...

The documentary evidence that would have either ... bring to a vote bills that establish more legal protections for death-row inmates. All of them have failed, and his efforts have put him at ...

Richard Glossip, a longtime death row inmate, will get a new trial after the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the prosecutors withheld evidence and provided the jury with faulty testimony from ...

That’s not, I can know that’s nothing. We won’t know until the end, you know.” Meanwhile, there are 16 other inmates from northwest Louisiana on Death Row, according to the Department of Corrections.