Paris (AFP) – Over 20 foreign nationals who themselves endured years of captivity in Iran on Wednesday urged Sweden to step up efforts to free a Swedish-Iranian citizen sentenced to death in the ...

His attorneys say he still has a right to challenge his sentence. At 78, he is the oldest prisoner on Mississippi's death row and the longest-serving at 48 years. They filed a petition for a writ ...

Another Texas death row case from the late 1990s is facing scrutiny as laws and science evolve, questioning if the state got it right in the capital murder case of Charles Flores. Flores ...

The Death Row Records co-founder, whose California-based label was at odds with Combs' Bad Boy Records during the East Coast-West Coast hip-hop rivalry, was brought up during testimony at Combs ...

Scammers are making money by stealing the identities of some of the most isolated people in the U.S.: inmates on death row. A report published ... “There are public records and history around ...

Disability rights advocates said Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie's "profound brain damage" should spare him from execution. Ritchie's legal team appealed to the Indiana Parole Board for ...

John Wayne Gacy was executed in prison 31 years ago on May 10, 1994 Jordana Comiter is an Associate Editor on the Evergreen team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has ...

in the U.S., we have leaders champing at the bit to kill death row prisoners. In response to arguments that lethal injection methods have inflicted lingering and excruciating pain on the executed ...

The autopsy results of a death row inmate who chose to die by firing squad suggests the execution didn't go to plan. Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for his killing spree in Windston-Salem, North ...

according to online court records. Glossip's new hearing has been set for 10 a.m. on June 9. Glossip, who spent nearly 30 years on death row, is awaiting the state’s decision on whether he will ...

More than a month later, neither the Mohave County Medical Examiner’s office in Arizona nor the National Park Service will identify the hiker or discuss the circumstances of the death.

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 ...