With Tennessee days away from carrying out its first execution since 2020, death row inmates are asking a Davidson County ...

SAN FRANCISCO — By age 46, Bob Williams had spent more than half his life in isolation, waiting to die on San Quentin’s death row. Williams ... points on their records, which means “they ...

Salt Lake City — Attorneys for a Utah man who's been on death row for 37 years sought to convince a state judge Wednesday that the convicted murderer should be spared execution because he has ...

Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled for execution on May 22, will die by lethal injection if the process moves forward. Smith, who was asked to choose between lethal ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled on May 1 that a man on death row has exhausted all his legal ... according to MDOC records. All of them have been men. Three-fourths were white, one-fourth ...

An Indiana death row inmate set to be executed in less than two weeks is asking for the nation's highest court to intervene. Lawyers for Benjamin Ritchie wrote that their client was "sentenced to ...

Richard Jordan, Mississippi's oldest death row inmate, has been given a June ... according to court records. He was initially sentenced to death in 1977, but that sentence later was reduced ...

On death row, he built a life amid the dank cells of ... prisoners are showing a decline in disciplinary points on their records, which means "they’re engaging in programming options and have ...

This story has been updated to reflect a stay of execution for one of the death row inmates previously assigned a September execution date. Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate ...

Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed on ... According to Mississippi Supreme Court records, Jordan kidnapped Edwina Marter in January 1976 and shot her to death ...