Robert Roberson, an inmate on death row in Texas, could be the first in the nation executed for a "shaken baby syndrome" death.

A South Carolina death row inmate who is the next person scheduled to be put to death by the state is again requesting that his execution be postponed because his lawyers have not received the ...

Oklahoma's only female death row inmate, whose attorneys argue was "sex-shamed" during her husband's murder trial, may have another day in court after a Tuesday Supreme Court ruling. Brenda Andrew ...

The president commuted the death sentences of almost all of the men on federal death row, but left out three of the most well-known, including Roof. Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop ...

As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...

A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered chilling last words prior to being executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 12 death row inmates have so far been scheduled for execution in South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, Oklahoma and Ohio. On his first day ...

The Pacc Act aims to prevent abuse of court processes. It sets out steps that death row inmates have to take before filing further applications to delay their executions after they have exhausted ...

Now 20 years later, those who know him say he's a deeply faithful man who has become so gentle, he recently hand-raised a baby lizard in his cell on Texas Death Row. "The man I was 20 years ago is ...

(WHTM) – A man on Pennsylvania’s death row was found deceased in their cell on Tuesday morning. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections says Tam Le, 53, was found unresponsive at SCI ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 24 in the case of a man on Texas death row who has long tried to obtain postconviction DNA testing on evidence that he says would exonerate him.