Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 execution. In Nashville's ...

Kern Valley State Prison violence in California leaves death row inmate Julian Mendez dead in attack involving multiple inmates, prompting investigation by prison officials and district attorney.

More than 200 Civil rights groups urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to use his powers to commute California's more than 500 death ...

Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen, who fervently sought Richard Farley’s sentence reduction, just walked away.

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...

A coalition of California and national civil rights leaders called on Governor Gavin Newsom to commute the death sentences of ...

By age 46, Bob Williams had spent more than half his life in isolation, waiting to die on San Quentin's death row.

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

A Sacramento judge on Friday formally imposed the death penalty for Adel Ramos, who pleaded guilty to the ambush killing of ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is looking into the death of 26-year-old Jose Rodriguez, who was ...

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder ...

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