A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

The 11th Circuit Court of Criminal appeals has sided with a man who was convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire of Montgomery ...

The request comes shortly after Gov. Mike Braun suggested that state lawmakers take up debate on capital punishment.

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Texas death row inmate who is seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible ...

The court had earlier vacated Darrell Robinson's conviction and death sentence in a brutal quadruple murder in Rapides Parish ...

Next month, the state of Florida will officially be allowed to use new means of executing prisoners on death row — with some ...

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater ...

More than three decades after killing his wife and two young children, former Florida airman Edward J. Zakrzewski II is ...

Two Utah death row cases tied to murders in the 1980s are seeing new movement, with one facing a possible retrial and another ...

Nearly five decades after being convicted of murder, a Mississippi man got executed. Can that happen in NJ, PA?