JOE Ingle swore he would never watch a friend die. But in 1988, he had to break that rule. Willie Darden, on Florida’s death ...

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 are executed — 17 years, according to the Florida Department of Corrections.

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 ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily ... years on death row. The city of Edmond agreed to pay more than $7 million in the case. Can the residents of Oklahoma accept a system that terminates life without ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

If prosecutors decide against seeking the death penalty in these cases, the defendant faces life imprisonment without ... transferred from the former death row at San Quentin State Prison to ...