Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.

Steven Nelson, who is set to be executed today after being sentenced to death for his role in the murder of pastor Clint ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on ...

James D. Ford, who was convicted of murdering a young couple in 1999 in southwest Florida while their toddler looked on, was ...

A convicted killer has been executed after spending over two decades sitting on death row. Back in February 2001, the charred ...

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

Larry Wayne Whitehead, 62, was convicted in 1996 for the death of Albertville police officer and detective Andrew Whitten. Whitten was set to testify against Whitehead in an upcoming theft trial, ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this ...

A man — who was convicted in Texas of a double homicide and confessed to killing two others — sought penance from the ...