The Justice Department has so far transferred 10 of 37 former death row inmates to the nation's "supermax" prison, and it ...

Oklahoma governor grants clemency to death row inmate just hours before scheduled execution, commuting sentence to life ...

Florida on Thursday executed a death row inmate convicted of rape and murder of a convenience store clerk in 1998, a record ...

Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are asking the governor to convert his sentence to life ...

Tremane Wood was scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma on Thursday. Gov. Kevin Sitt commuted his death sentence to life ...

"Bryant made no noise," a media witness recalled. "The red bullseye target that marks the location of his heart flew forward ...

An Oklahoma death row inmate was hospitalized Thursday after being found unresponsive in his cell, just hours after being ...

Richard Barry Randolph, 63, is set to receive a lethal injection starting at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison near Starke.

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection before his ...

A psychologist issued his clinical opinion this week that death row inmate Ralph Menzies, who was set to be executed before ...

Harold Wayne Nichols is to be executed Dec. 11. He's asked Gov. Bill Lee to commute his sentence to life without the ...

Mica Alexander Martinez was sentenced to death for the fatal beating of a couple early Oct. 12, 2009, at their rural home ...