Ohio has not carried out an execution in nearly seven years, despite 116 inmates remaining on death row, according to the state’s ...

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of April 13-19 include actor Adrien Brody, country singer Chris Stapleton and ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Bruce Ward, a convicted murderer who was the longest-serving inmate on Arkansas’ death row, has died ...

The Justice Department will seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing a fellow inmate at the federal government ...

Heather Mitchell shows a photograph of her husband Marcus Mitchell who has been on death row in Raleigh’s Central Prison for 27 years. He has long been an advocate for death row inmates ...

Iwao Hakamada, wrongfully convicted of murder, spent over four decades on death row before being awarded $1.4 million for his suffering. This payout highlights issues in Japan’s justice system.

A convicted murderer who was the longest-serving inmate on Arkansas' death row has died of natural causes LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Bruce Ward, a convicted murderer who was the longest-serving inmate ...

Attorneys for a South Carolina death row inmate whose execution is imminent are making a last-ditch argument that their client is incompetent to be executed partly because of his belief that he is ...

A man on death row is facing execution tonight by use of a controversial nitrogen gas which the same state has banned for killing pet cats and dogs. Jessie Hoffman was sentenced to death in 1996 ...

He does, though, pick and choose who speaks to his kids and how. The brainy pharmacist Bart Johnson on Alabama’s death row delights in doing Simpsons impressions for Hood’s cartoon-obsessed son.

The iconic Los Angeles-based music label Death Row Records is in national headlines again after a Houston woman filed a lawsuit against the label and rappers Suge Knight and Snoop Dogg.

She accused Death Row Records, Time Warner, Universal Music Group, and Interscope Records of conspiring to avoid paying her a $107 million judgment a judge in Los Angeles issued in 2005.