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

A third of executions in 2022 were botched or highly problematic, according to a report from the Death Penalty Information ...

There is only so much that defense attorneys can do in cases like that of Matthew Johnson. Johnson is scheduled to be ...

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

NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday informed the Delhi high court that the Indian embassy in Indonesia is actively assisting three Indian nationals from Tamil Nadu who were sentenced to death for ...

They were awarded the death penalty by Tanjung Balai Karimun District ... in addition to appropriate assistance to the death row convicts.

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A hearing has been scheduled for convicted killer and death row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies to determine if he's competent enough to face the death penalty. Menzies has ...

In 1936, the state began using the gas chamber. In 1983, inmates on death row were given the choice between the gas chamber or lethal injection. In 1998, the state made lethal injection the sole ...

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Indian Consulate in Indonesia to extend urgent legal assistance and facilitate communication for three Indian nationals sentenced to death on ...

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 ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed on June 25, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Richard Gerald Jordan, 78, who was sentenced to ...

But it did dramatically upend their lives. Hundreds of death row inmates from San Quentin have been scattered among two dozen institutions across the state, while the 18 condemned women who had ...