Lawrence Russell Brewer was the last death row inmate in Texas that was allowed to choose what his final meal was before his ...

The Texas Attorney General’s Office requested a rehearing after the murder conviction of an Amarillo woman on death row was ...

The defenders of death row inmate Brittany Holberg have until May 12 to respond to a federal appeals court considering ...

George Ryan, who served as Illinois secretary of state, Illinoia House speaker, lieutenant governor and ultimately governor, ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, disgraced by a corruption scandal that landed him in prison yet ...

A death row inmate was unable to convince a federal appeals court that Texas’ post-conviction DNA-testing procedures violate his right to due process on Thursday.

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

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

The Mississippi Supreme Court has set an execution date for the state’s longest-serving death row inmate. Richard Gerald ...

After finding Cousins, 48, guilty of capital murder last week, a jury in Criminal District Court No. 3 in Tarrant County on ...