A new program in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, allows death row prisoners to mingle outside of solitary confinement ...

A Davidson County Chancery Court judge says the state of Tennessee must disconnect a death row inmate's heart defibrillator ...

More death-row inmates have been volunteering for their executions: Between 1993 and 2002, 75 volunteered for death, compared to the 22 consensual executions between 1977 and 1992.

Sept. 18, 2012 — -- Attorneys for a 486-pound Ohio death row inmate claim that the execution procedure "simply will not work" on their client and will cause him a "torturous and lingering death." ...