A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 inmates with commuted death sentences ...

Scotty Ray Gardner sent a letter addressed to Circuit Judge Charles E. Clawson asking that the court deny his pending appeal.

One of Alabama’s longest-serving death row inmates could soon receive a new trial. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a summer ruling from the 11th U.S.

A judge who blocked the Trump administration from transferring former death row inmates said the criminals were convicted of "some of the most horrific crimes imaginable." ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The federal judge said the Justice Department's plans to relocate former death row prisoners to a supermax prison in Florence, ...

Short stories, poetry and think pieces Joesph Patri Brown has written while incarcerated have been collected in a book called ...

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 ...

An Arkansas death row inmate will have a hearing in August to determine if he can end his appeals against the advice of an ...

The Ada County Coroner initially reported he died of natural causes, which was later determined to be a 'cerebral infarction' or stroke.

The largest number of death row inmates is in California. Right now, there are an estimated 580 inmates (including 18 women) in California awaiting execution, although there has not been an execution ...