Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols has declined to chose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal ...

Larry Wayne Whitehead, 63, was an inmate at Donaldson prison. On Oct. 31, he was taken from the prison infirmary to UAB ...

The family of a Delta State University student and a Black activist organization allege he was lynched, disputing the official ruling of suicide. Authorities, including the Mississippi State Medical ...

Thomas Creech was already serving a life term when he beat another prisoner, 22-year-old David Dale Jensen, to death in 1981 ...

States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions ...

All the research that has been conducted on the death penalty by unbiased and sophisticated researchers tells us quite ...

A Marana father pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and child abuse in the hot car death of his 2-year-old daughter. Christopher Scholtes accepted a plea deal that carries a sentence of 20 to 30 ...

A divided five-member parole board in Oklahoma recommended clemency for a 46-year-old man on death row for the 2001 New ...

Tremane Wood's fate is in the hands of Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt who decides whether or not to commute his death sentence ...