But the Corrections Department said the inmate did write a message on paper that read ... the governor didn’t sign off on any executions. He signed Ford’s death warrant in January.

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on ...

A federal judge rejected a Georgia death row inmate's request to be executed by firing squad because he claims that lethal injection could cause him excruciating pain. Michael Wade Nance ...

Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.

A man — who was convicted in Texas of a double homicide and confessed to killing two others — sought penance from the ...

A Tennessee death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, the quality of ...

Now 20 years later, those who know him say he's a deeply faithful man who has become so gentle, he recently hand-raised a baby lizard in his cell on Texas Death Row. "The man I was 20 years ago is ...

A condemned man who is the next person scheduled to be put to death in South Carolina is again asking for his execution be ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 12 death row inmates have so far been scheduled for execution in South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, Oklahoma and Ohio. On his first day ...

Gunches, now 53, was put on death row after pleading guilty to Price's murder. The inmate recently said his death sentence was "long overdue," the Associated Press reported. In a statement ...