At least 71 death row inmates in China had their vital organs removed, to be used for transplants, before they were officially declared dead, according to a study published in the Am erican ...

The world's longest-serving death row inmate, Japanese former boxer Iwao ... diagnosed with institutional psychosis, reports ...

Procedures for their executions should meet human rights standards. Death row inmates are informed of their executions on the day they are carried out and then escorted to the scaffold.

Japan carried out its first executions in two years on Dec. 21 by hanging three death row inmates, one of them a mass murderer, in Tokyo and Osaka Prefecture. Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa ...

The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment. One state has executed by ...

South Carolina carried out the execution of Richard Moore on Friday evening, according to the state, a day after the US ...

so when he heard in 2011 that Texas was abolishing the special last-meal request for death-row inmates, he became fascinated by the tradition. "I dug into [researching] it ... and found a public ...

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, also called the Effective ...

A Georgia man convicted of killing his former girlfriend three decades ago is scheduled to be put to death in what would be the state's first execution in more than four years. Texas is preparing ...

After Trump won a second term on Wednesday, the Rev. Sharon Risher sent Biden a letter urging him to take action, including by commuting the sentences of all inmates on federal death row ...

There are 277 people on death row in Florida. Six men on death row were convicted of crimes on the Treasure Coast. These are their stories, compiled from court records and TCPalm archives and ...