Mikal Mahdi, who pleaded guilty to murder for killing a police officer in 2004, is scheduled to be executed April 11.

South Carolina death row inmate has asked to die by firing squad just five weeks after the state carried out its first ...

“This culture of noncompliance, when combined with the risk-prone nature of pentobarbital poisoning as a method of execution, ...

Elaine* spent the final 20 years of her life writing letters to 25 long-term prisoners in the U.S. prison system. Each of the 24 men and the sole woman ...

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of the ...

District Attorney James Stewart filed the motion Monday asking for an execution date for murderer Darrell Dewayne Draughn.

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 Japanese man who spent more than 40 years on death row until he was acquitted last year has been awarded $1.4 million in compensation, a court said on Tuesday – roughly $85 for each day he was ...

(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)(Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the ...

Mr Hakamata's lawyers had sought the highest compensation possible, arguing that the 47 years in detention - which made him the world's longest-serving death row inmate - took a toll on his mental ...