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

The longest-serving death row inmate in Mississippi's history, Richard Jordan, was executed Wednesday evening at the ...

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

Mississippi has 37 death row inmates and all but one are men. Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, is the longest-serving death row ...

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 ...

Death row prisoner Byron Black is asking the Tennessee Supreme Court to step in and delay his scheduled Aug. 5 execution.

Duval County Circuit Judge Jeb Branham on Tuesday refused to grant a new trial or resentencing hearing for a Jacksonville Death Row inmate convicted of the 1993 murder of a husband and wife.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has delayed the execution of three men who are on death row in the state, his office announced Friday.

The Supreme Court yesterday rejected an appeal from death row prisoner Cheng Wu-sung (鄭武松) to suspend his execution. In ...

The state of Texas is pushing to set a new execution date for death row inmate, Robert Roberson. FOX 4's Dan Godwin brings viewers the latest updates on the case.

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