Texas death row inmate Cedric Ricks, convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend and her 8-year-old son, apologized to a ...

From prison on his scheduled execution day, Charles “Sonny" Burton said he feels he “dodged death" after receiving clemency.

Rhys Williams became friends with convicted killer Roderick Orme after the pair began exchanging letters.

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice ...

Southwest Ohio's longest-serving resident on the state's Death Row has died, just over 40 years after he was arrested for the ...

An Orange County judge has denied Tommy Zeigler a new trial, ruling new DNA evidence doesn’t prove the 80-year-old is innocent in a 1975 quadruple murder.

Charles “Sonny” Burton had been scheduled to die March 12 by nitrogen hypoxia for his role in a 1991 Talladega armed robbery, before Gov. Kay Ivey intervened March 10.

Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Sonny Burton, who was set to be executed this week for a murder in which he didn't pull the trigger.

An Alabama inmate scheduled for execution in a few days has been officially taken off death row. Gov. Kay Ivey announced Tuesday she commuted the death sentence of Charles L. Burton to life in prison ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey spared the life of a 75-year-old death row inmate who was set to be executed this week for a killing he did not commit ...

Florida's death row population is shrinking. Learn about the only biological woman, Tina Brown, and trans woman Jenna Rodgers ...

A bipartisan group of Missouri lawmakers and religious leaders want to abolish the death penalty, citing its financial and human costs.