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

The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25.

A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...

Richard Gerald Jordan has been on Mississippi's death row since 1977. The state has set an execution date of June 25, saying ...

Judge Steven Hippler denied a motion on Tuesday from Bryan Kohberger's defense team that asked to remove the death penalty as ...

A man who has served nearly three decades on death row in Louisiana has had his conviction overturned by a judge.

In a ruling Thursday, the state’s high court said Jordan had exhausted all state and federal appeals and set the execution ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

Nathaniel Jackson, who was sentenced to death for the 2001 murder of Robert Fingerhut in Howland Township had his death ...

Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan died Friday morning at 91, more than two decades after leaving office for the last time and ...