Then-new Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they ...

Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled to die on May 22, declined to select a method meaning it ...

The top federal prosecutor in Luigi Mangione's case has been recused, according to a letter to Judge Margaret M. Garnett on ...

Idaho won’t be able to carry out the death penalty until prison officials improve what execution witnesses can hear and see ...

In the Suge Knight civil trial, the Death Row founder has settled the wrongful death case brought against him for $1.5 ...

Bryan Kohberger's request to strike the death penalty, citing "voluminous and unorganized" evidence, was rejected by an Ada ...

Suge Knight agreed to a $1.5 million settlement on the eve of a retrial over claims he negligently killed a Compton dad.

A hearing was held Thursday, April 17 in Caddo District Court for a death row inmate who is trying to appeal his sentence.

Pennsylvania prosecutors tell BI they want to try Mangione on gun and forgery charges. First, though, a battle looms over who ...

Tsarnaev’s lawyers allege two jurors were biased when they agreed to sentence him to death in June of 2015 for “using weapons ...

Darnell Jones is facing more than a dozen charges including kidnapping, rape, gross abuse of a corpse and aggravated murder.

A bill in the Oklahoma House that would add the death penalty or life for any person convicted of certain crimes against ...