Ralph Menzies was once just days away from death by firing squad. The death row inmate died of natural causes on Wednesday.

NEW ORLEANS -- A Louisiana man who spent nearly three decades on death row has been released on bail Wednesday after his ...

The Justice Department has so far transferred 10 of 37 former death row inmates to the nation's "supermax" prison, and it ...

John Louis Evans III, aged 33, was put to death in Alabama after killing a pawnbroker, and was eventually strapped into an ...

John Louis Evans III was executed in Alabama in 1983 after being convicted of killing pawnbroker Edward Nassar during a 1977 ...

Before a former Delaware man was sentenced to life in prison on sex trafficking charges in Hawaii, he wrote a scathing letter ...

Wood, 46, is set to be executed Nov. 13 for a fatal stabbing in Oklahoma City in 2002. He denies he was the stabber. He is ...

Texas has, by far, led the nation in executions since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. These are the Dallas County ...

Oklahoma governor grants clemency to death row inmate just hours before scheduled execution, commuting sentence to life ...

Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are asking the governor to convert his sentence to life imprisonment with just a month until his scheduled Dec. 11 execution date.