A former University of South Carolina student is going to prison for decades after recently pleading guilty to a crime ...

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

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

Federal Courts Now an Avenue for Inmates to Challenge Texas DNA Testing Laws The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a ...

A divided Supreme Court is allowing states to cut off Medicaid money for Planned Parenthood amid a wider Republican-backed ...

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

On June 24, death row inmate Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke, ...

Twenty-four men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S. Five other people are scheduled to be put ...

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

The Associated Press reported that Richard Gerald Jordan is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi State ...