Death row convict Jimmie "Chris" Duncan, imprisoned for 32 years for alleged rape and murder of a two-year-old, now has been ...

As the state prepares to execute Jacksonville killer Michael Bell, here's a look at five of the most reprehensible cases this ...

The seeming decline of a certain type of novelist is much discussed and debated in the literary world. But the bigger question is whether it matters.

Death row inmate Byron James Shepard died in January from a bleeding pancreas, an autopsy found. Shepard, 43, was confined at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester awaiting execution for the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — By age 46, Bob Williams had spent more than half his life in isolation, waiting to die on San Quentin's death row.

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Texas death row inmate who is seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for execution. The 6-3 decision in favor of Ruben ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a violent ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, the longest-serving man on Mississippi's death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer's wife in a violent ransom ...