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.

Indiana seeks execution date for Roy Lee Ward, despite previous plans to pause lethal injection drug purchases.

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

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

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

For the second time in as many years, the Supreme Court intervened as Texas prisoners sought to navigate the Lone Star ...

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

A former death row inmate – and one of Colorado's most infamous convicted killers – has been denied a new trial by the Colorado ...

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

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