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

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

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

Society / Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system—including ...

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

Ralph Menzies, convicted of brutally murdering 26-year-old Maurine Hunsaker in 1986, died.The Utah Department of Corrections ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Tyler’s case shows how bias, fear, and discrimination drive wrongful convictions — and why confronting racial injustice in ...