James Duckett, a Mascotte police officer convicted nearly 40 years ago of raping and murdering a little girl, has managed to ...
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita on Wednesday asked the Indiana Supreme Court to schedule the execution of death row ...
Charles Flores argued that his conviction was improperly based on testimony from a witness who changed her recollection after ...
A failed execution in Tennessee left death row inmate Tony Carruthers bleeding and moaning, a witness says. Attorneys for ...
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a request to hear the appeal of Tony Terrell Clark, a man on Mississippi death row for ...
Responding to a lawsuit by an Alabama death row inmate, a federal appeals court says the state's use of nitrogen gas to put ...
In a rare ruling for a condemned prisoner, the justices would not let Alabama use a contested method of execution. By Adam Liptak Adam Liptak is the chief legal correspondent and host of The Docket.
The Kansas death chamber is a small room with one-way windows so witnesses and the executioner can see in but the inmate ...
The only woman on Tennessee’s death row is challenging the state’s execution protocol.
The Army is reportedly preparing to execute four military personnel currently on death row, if given the green light by ...
A Harris County judge formally resentenced Clarence Jordan to life imprisonment after he spent nearly half a century on death ...
Condemned prisoners on California's death row are partly filling their time by watching pornography and engaging in lewd conversations using taxpayer-funded tablets as the state continues its shift ...