Federal prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty for an inmate accused of strangling his cellmate at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the final appeal of an Horry County death row inmate. The decision means Stephen Stanko ...

Attorneys for a Utah man who has been on death row for 37 years are due before a state judge Wednesday as they seek to spare ...

Indiana is one of two states that doesn't guarantee the press a right to attend executions, hindering the public's right to ...

Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie expressed remorse and shed tears as he pleaded Monday for the state’s parole board ...

The Indiana State Parole Board will hold a clemency hearing on Monday for a man convicted of killing a Beech Grove police ...

A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with ...

Embattled former Illinois Gov. George Ryan has died at age 91. Ryan, who served as Illinois' governor from 1999 to 2003, passed away Friday morning after spending the last few days in hospice care, ...

A lawsuit filed on behalf of 21 inmates seeks to prevent them from being transferred to a notorious federal supermax prison ...

Clemency hearings for Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie will take place in the coming weeks as the condemned man’s ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WAWV/WTWO) — An inmate already serving multiple life ... The medical examiner ruled the official cause of death to be asphyxiation and determined the manner of death as ...