June saw the death of a musician whose talent brought The Beach Boys from a local California band to hitmakers and ...

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater ...

Richard Jordan, the longest-serving and oldest person on Mississippi's death row, was executed on June 25 for the 1976 murder ...

Louisiana's chief legal officer is appealing to the state Supreme Court for the justices to develop a standard that would expedite the executions of five inmates on death row.

Nearly five decades after being convicted of murder, a Mississippi man got executed. Can that happen in NJ, PA?

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

Mississippi carried out the execution of Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran who had spent nearly five ...