By outlawing indefinite solitary confinement for death row inmates, Oklahoma joins states like Hawaii, Connecticut, and New York, which have ended this practice in recent years. Some prisoners remain ...

Had the execution gone forward, Burton would have faced a harsher punishment than the man who killed the victim during a botched robbery that Burton participated in.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama governor commutes sentence of a 75-year-old death row inmate who was not in the building when victim was killed.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday began sit-in protest against alleged voter roll deletions via Special ...

India expressed condolences over the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri signing the condolence book at the Iranian embassy. The move came amid ...

A man who was sentenced to Idaho's death row in 2004 has died in prison custody due to natural causes. The Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC) on Tuesday announced Erick Hall died of natural causes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Idaho death row prisoner died in custody Monday evening of natural causes while at a local hospital, the state prison system ...

Idaho death row prisoner Erick Hall, convicted of two rapes and murders, died in custody. Hall’s convictions stemmed from the killings of Lynn Henneman and Cheryl Ann Hanlon. Idaho is switching from ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 ex-death row inmates, granted clemency by former President Biden, to the most restrictive “supermax” prison in the ...

Dear Governor Ivey, As Alabama’s chief executive, you have many duties that keep you very busy, so this request to grant ...

Rejon Taylor, a former death row inmate, has spoken of his “joy” after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from transferring him and 19 other inmates with commuted death sentences to a ...