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

A Houston-area man convicted of killing his wife died this week after more than three decades on death row, marking the ...

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 ...

Japan on Friday executed a man dubbed the "Twitter killer" who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the ...

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