More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

Separated from the general prison population, Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours a day alone in their cells.

A new petition is calling for a federal investigation into the death of Steven Davis, a 35-year-old inmate who died following ...

Joseph Naso, the convicted murderer known as the " Alphabet Killer," is once again under scrutiny following new claims he may have killed as many as 26 women—and that he was "giddy" about one victim ...

Anthony Todd Boyd is pleading to meet with Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, saying this week that he's innocent and asking her to "do ...

A Montgomery pastor who ministers in Alabama prisons told state lawmakers Wednesday that he sees incarcerated men who are ...

On Thursday, Alabama is set to execute Geoffrey West by nitrogen gas. At the same time, Texas is scheduled to execute Blaine ...

A man convicted of killing a gas station clerk was put to death by nitrogen gas in Alabama, one of two executions carried out in the United States on Thursday.There have been 33 executions in the ...

Texas executed Blaine Milam, 35, by lethal injection for the 2008 death of his girlfriend's baby daughter. Minutes later, ...

The US made history in August as it executed its first-ever prisoner in 15 years by firing squad in what was only the fourth time the method has been used since the death penalty was resumed in the co ...

Three decades after she was convicted of the horrific murder of her classmate, Christa Gail Pike's fate has now been sealed.