Oklahoma is now one of the states with the harshest penalties for child sex offenses after lawmakers paved the way for the ...

Brenda Andrew is currently serving time in the Mabel Bassett Correctional Center in Oklahoma, where she is still the only woman on the state's death row.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Supreme Court ruled Thursday that “numerous constitutional violations” during the trial and sentencing of a man who spent decades on death row merit a new trial.

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A man on Indiana's death row for killing a Beech Grove police officer is now asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene just weeks before his scheduled execution. Lawyers for Benjamin ...

Ritchie, who has been on Indiana’s death row since his 2002 conviction, is set to be executed May 20 for the 2000 killing. The five-member panel heard from a remorseful Ritchie at the ...

This includes 11 different people who remain on death row for death sentences that were handed down in Hamilton County courtrooms as far back as 1985.The full list of death row inmates convicted ...

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 ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Mississippi’s longest-tenured death row inmate, Richard Gerald Jordan, has a petition pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. Jordan is set to be executed on June 25 at 6 p ...

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 ...