Prisoners say the Trump administration is seeking tougher conditions for them as punishment for having their death sentences ...

He won't accept a life sentence, one has said. His stay far exceeds the average time inmates spend on death row before they ...

At the time, Jones had been in prison for more than 20 years and penned four books about life on death row, detailing the daily grind of his days in a 5-foot by 9-foot cell. Now Kinmont ...

A Japanese man who spent more than 40 years on death row before being exonerated last year has been handed a record payout. Iwao Hakamada, 89, was wrongly convicted for a quadruple murder in 1968 ...

A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad ... Mahdi’s lawyers have filed a final appeal with the state’s highest court, saying Mahdi’s case for a life sentence at his ...

Kevin Burns is the pastor of the Church of Life, a congregation for the men on Tennessee's death row. Burns was convicted of felony murder and sentenced to death, but he maintains he was at the ...

Tyrone Noling has spent more than half of his life on Ohio’s death row for a 1990 double murder that he says he didn’t commit. Noling was a teenager when he and three of his friends were ...

A Japanese man who spent more than 40 years on death row until he was acquitted last ... would go on to spend more than half his life waiting to be hanged. New evidence led to his release in ...