A Nevada death row inmate is requesting a court hearing, pursuing what federal public defenders say is his right to the clemency process.

On Nov. 7, High Desert inmate Hawk Urban, 27, was stabbed to death after a fight with his cellmate, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections and the man’s mother. High Desert replaced ...

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THE Compton gangbanger accused of orchestrating the murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur has been hit with a new charge after allegedly being involved in a fight with another inmate. Surveillance ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

(AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins) This undated photo shows Marion Bowman Jr. released by the South Carolina Department of ...

The death row inmate continues to maintain his innocence. But “he cannot in good conscience ask for a supposed mercy that would require him to spend the rest of his life in prison for a crime he did ...