Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled.

With Tennessee days away from carrying out its first execution since 2020, death row inmates are asking a Davidson County ...

Oscar Franklin Smith was moved to death watch, a two-day period of 24-hour observation, before his planned execution.

While many death row inmates are given the choice of what they would like to eat as their final meal, prisoners in Texas no longer have this privilege. As of 2022, 55 countries across the globe still ...

After exhausting his appeals, Stephen Stanko, convicted of two murders in Horry County, will have to choose his method of ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers will discuss a bill Tuesday that would give death row inmates the option to choose between three execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution ...

Real love.” He once again enlisted his wide network to contribute to Altar Call, which includes Jamie Foxx covering Bill Withers’ “Grandma’s Hands,” as well as Death Row artists Charlie ...

This story has been updated to reflect a stay of execution for one of the death row inmates previously assigned a September execution date. Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate ...

Several district attorneys have considered charging former death row prisoners whose sentences were commuted by former President Joe Biden months after a White House executive order called on them ...

State law allows death row inmates sentenced in crimes that happened before 1999 to select either electrocution or the state's default execution method of lethal injection. Smith has been one of ...

After a Houston woman filed a $107 million lawsuit against Snoop Dogg and Death Row Records, the West Coast rapper and label are trying to get the complaint dismissed. In March, Lydia Harris ...