After finding Cousins guilty of capital murder last week, a jury in Criminal District Court No. 3 in Tarrant County on ...

Then-new Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they ...

Smith, who was asked to choose between lethal injection and the electric chair, declined to pick, his attorney Kelley Henry, ...

The top federal prosecutor in Luigi Mangione's case has been recused, according to a letter to Judge Margaret M. Garnett on ...

Judge Steven Hippler denied a motion on Tuesday from Bryan Kohberger's defense team that asked to remove the death penalty as ...

A man who has served nearly three decades on death row in Louisiana has had his conviction overturned by a judge ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Mississippi death row inmate's convictions for the slayings of eight people, ...

A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...

Defendant asked for ‘everything,’ and ‘everything’ is what he received,” the judge wrote. “Defendant cannot demand everything ...

Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie's clemency hearings are set for the coming weeks as his legal team fights to delay ...

A hearing was held Thursday, April 17 in Caddo District Court for a death row inmate who is trying to appeal his sentence.

Bryan Kohberger's request to strike the death penalty, citing "voluminous and unorganized" evidence, was rejected by an Ada ...