Democrat Rep. Hank Johnson reintroduced for a third time a death row appeals bill that would allow inmates to introduce newly ...

A Georgia clemency panel has voted against allowing a death row inmate, who is set to be executed later this week, to spend the rest of his days in prison. Willie James Pye, 59, has been on death ...

The GBI is investigating the death of inmate David Woodward at the Houston County Sheriff’s Office Detention Center.

A grand jury on Thursday indicted accused Georgia school mass shooter Colt Gray and his father Colin on dozens of charges ...

Former detective asks Texas officials to spare life of death row inmate whose arrest he ordered in 2002 Former detective asks ...

An inmate died at the Houston County Sheriff’s Office Detention Center in Perry, according to a press release from the ...

The Texas Supreme Court late Thursday stayed the execution of death row inmate Robert Roberson, just minutes after the ...

State prison officials had told Richard Moore this month he could choose the method for his Nov. 1 execution. State law had given him until Friday to decide.

Prior to Owens, the last death row inmate executed in South Carolina was ... and one each in South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, and Utah. The death penalty has been abolished in 23 US states ...

(CN) — A South Carolina death row inmate argued Tuesday he deserved a new trial in a ... Stanko was eventually arrested in Augusta, Georgia, where he was pretending to be a wealthy restaurateur during ...

Georgia Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson re-introduced a death row appeals bill that would allow death row inmates the opportunity to introduce newly discovered evidence in their appeal. H.R. 9868 ...