DEATH row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith writhed for minutes in his final moments as he was executed with deadly nitrogen gas.

Frazier is to be executed at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility, Atmore Alabama, sometime within a 30-hour-period ...

Attorneys for an Alabama inmate facing execution by nitrogen gas have filed a lawsuit, claiming the Detroit native was ...

A Limestone Correctional Facility inmate remained on life support following an inmate-on-inmate assault on Wednesday, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections.

An Alabama inmate set to die next month is asking to be sent back to a Michigan prison. The state doesn't want him back.

Attorneys for Demetrius Terrence Frazier, facing execution for a 1991 rape and murder, say his challenge to the state’s use ...

Attorney General Gentner Drummond has asked the Pardon and Parole Board to reject clemency for Oklahoma death row inmate Wendell Arden Grissom.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from a historic ruling in the case of a woman on death row for murder.

The lawyers formally incorporated the SPLC in 1971, and civil rights activist Julian Bond was named the first president. Dees ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

The only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, Brenda Andrew, was granted a new hearing by the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday.

Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked attorney general to help states obtain lethal injection ...