JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court has denied the latest appeal by a man who has been on death row for 30 ...

In South Carolina, the governor has the lone ability to grant clemency and reduce a death sentence to life in prison. However ...

A death row inmate in Missouri who has long claimed his innocence and is scheduled to be executed in less than one week asked the US Supreme Court ...

The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office will appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court a judge’s ruling upholding the ...

A Taiwan court decided on Friday to retain capital punishment, but ruled its application should be "limited to special and ...

Lawmakers in Texas, medical experts and the best-selling novelist John Grisham are pushing to save an autistic death row ...

Freddie Owens is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at 6 p.m. on Friday, despite a codefendant's new claim of ...

A Missouri judge on Thursday rejected an effort by the St. Louis prosecutor to vacate the conviction of Marcellus Williams, a death row inmate who claims he’s innocent ...

Police started investigating the daycare run by Naomi Hess, 27, in August, along with the Department of Social Services and ...

South Carolina put inmate Freddie Owens to death Friday as the state restarted executions after an unintended 13-year pause ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied a stay of execution Wednesday after his case was recommended to to the court by an Anderson County judge.

Freddie Owens may be the first of several inmates to die in the state's death chamber at Broad River Correctional Institution ...