Alabama is asking a federal appellate court to stop the new trial for a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row for ...

Texas executed Charles Victor Thompson for the double murder of his ex-girlfriend, Dennise Hayslip, and her new boyfriend, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Citing authorities, News 2’s Memphis sister station WREG reported that Carruthers and an accomplice were convicted of kidnapping, ...

Dallas County officials have posthumously declared Tommy Lee Walker innocent, more than 70 years after the state of Texas ...

Florida killer Wade Wilson was sentenced to death for the 2019 Cape Coral murders of Kristine Melton and Diane Ruiz.

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board unanimously voted to reduce Tony Mann’s life-without-parole sentence after his younger brother — now free — told members Mann didn’t participate in the murder that ...

The Senate Corrections and Criminal Law committee discussed a bill Tuesday that would allow firing squad executions for death penalty inmates, including testimony from four people opposed to the bill.

Four executions have been set this year by the Tennessee Supreme Court, which includes the only woman on the state's death ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The only woman currently sentenced to death in Tennessee has filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s revised lethal injection execution protocol. Christa Gail Pike filed suit in ...

Senate Bill 11 was introduced as lethal injection drugs have become more expensive and hard to get, leading some states to turn to other methods.