Death row is serious business, and those who work behind the scenes to administer the lethal injection have a stressful job, but what about back in the day, when people were executed by swinging an ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are asking the state Supreme Court to halt his execution, arguing that the judge who sentenced him never considered the extent of his brain damage caused ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...

Stacey Ian Humphreys, who sits on death row for the murder of two Cobb County real estate agents, can’t pause his execution over a pandemic-era memo that has shielded some capital inmates, a federal ...

A Utah man who had his execution blocked after developing dementia during his nearly 40 years on death row died of apparent natural causes, according to the state's Department of Corrections. Ralph ...

Florida’s death row inmates spend 23 hours a day in their 6-by-9 foot cells, passing time by watching TV on prison-issued devices, reading books or magazines, studying their case files or writing ...