Sometimes, it’s hard to keep track what’s happening in the news, so for everyone’s sake, The Root is recapping some of the ...

A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered chilling last words prior to being executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ...

A North Carolina judge has ruled that racial bias tainted jury selection and sentencing in the trial of a Black inmate who was sentenced to death in 2009.

Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, was convicted of the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown. Frazier raped and shot her ...

JAKARTA, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Indonesia has handed over to French authorities a man on death row for drug offences who will start his return to his home country late on Tuesday, the latest in a ...

Death row inmate Marion Bowman Jr., who long maintained his innocence, penned a final letter before his execution, declaring, ...

CALGARY - The fate of a Canadian who has been on death row in Montana for the past 42 years has been thrown into more uncertainty as state legislators try again to remove obstacles to resuming ...

The question "What would your death row meal be?" serves as a popular topic for dinner party small talk, and even some podcasts. But it's grounded in a grim tradition. In countries which still ...

Demetrius Frazier apologized to the loved ones of one of the women he murdered and uttered two final words before he was ...

he government has handed over to French authorities a man on death row for drug offences who will start his return to his home country late on Tuesday, the latest in a series of foreign drug ...

A French national held on death row in Indonesia since 2007 for drug offences is returning to France on Tuesday as part of an agreement made between both countries. Serge Atlaoui, 61, was accused ...

Marion Bowman Jr also died by lethal injection. He was sentenced to death after he was convicted of shooting and killing a friend. Police found the victim's body in a burned out car in 2001.