John Wayne Gacy spent his years on death row proclaiming his innocence from a 900 number, painting clowns and finding ways to ...

A death row inmate convicted of murdering Sgt. Mark Baserman in 2018 at SCI-Somerset alleged in court Thursday that the corrections sergeant abused and “humiliated” him. Part of a post-conviction ...

A twice-convicted murderer who had repeatedly said he wanted to die by lethal injection was found dead in his death-row prison cell from an apparent hanging, officials said Saturday. Scott Raymond ...

Some of America's death row inmates are getting a rare set of privileges which inmates say have "given guys hope". Death row in Texas is considered one of the harshest in the nation. For decades ...

Legal experts and rights activists yesterday called for sweeping reform of Bangladesh’s death penalty system, describing it as inhumane, overextended, and burdened by systemic failures that deny ...

A new prison program in Texas is bringing some positive changes in the lives of most hardened criminals and death row inmates. As per the new program, ‘recreational time’ is being offered to criminals ...

Two years after the crime that stole an innocent life, Sullins offered his last words, expressing a wish to reunite with ...

Days before his execution, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday sent the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson ...

The only woman on Tennessee's death row has been scheduled for execution more than 30 years after she brutally killed a teenage romantic rival and showed off a piece of the victim's skull to ...

These are the questions that photographer Mostifqur Rahman Johan confronts in his exhibition Living on Death Row, curated by ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A twice-convicted murderer who declared he wanted to die and who Nevada officials said tried several times to kill himself after two scheduled lethal injections were postponed has ...