Ohio passed a law in 2021 that exempted people with mental illnesses from being executed. Nine inmates have been removed from ...

Indonesia will sign an agreement on Tuesday to repatriate two British nationals, including a grandmother, languishing on ...

Three death row inmates escaped a Riau prison during heavy rain; two have been caught, one remains on the run.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today set October 28 for hearing the government's leave to appeal petition ...

Kwame Ajamu spent 28 years in prison – three on death row – for a Cleveland murder he didn't commit. He's now pushing for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 judge has been reprimanded for her handling of death row inmate Ronald Haskell’s post-conviction case that she was removed from following allegations that she acted favorably toward him.

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 ...

A death row inmate is fighting for a new trial after he claims the jury who put him there was contaminated. Paul Kendrick was ...

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 ...