Areli Escobar has sought a new trial since a damning audit of APD's crime lab. The same office that prosecuted him has ...

Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman is allowing county prosecutors to seek the death penalty again, reversing a ban ...

Iwao Hakamata was found not guilty last year - 56 years on from being falsely convicted of the murder of his boss and his ...

He served nearly 50 years on death row for murders he didn't commit, but now octogenarian Iwao Hakamata is about to recoup ...

Iwao Hakamada, 89, who is believed to have been the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, was exonerated last year of a ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (South Dakota Searchlight) – A U.S. Supreme Court case on regulatory rulemaking doesn’t give South Dakota’s only death row inmate a chance to renew and re-litigate the appeals that ...

If Prison Break had been a one-and-done limited series it would have secured a higher placing on this list. As it stands, ...

When it comes to death row inmate Darrell Robinson, the Louisiana Supreme Court can't seem to make up its mind.

A Japanese man who spent more than 40 years on death row until he was acquitted last year has been awarded $1.4 million in ...

year-old death row inmate had his federal petition rejected.

Nearly 50 years on death row had inflicted "extremely severe" mental and physical pain on Iwao Hakamata, a judge said.

A federal court judge has denied Briley Wayne Piper's petition to to appeal his death sentence. The man remains on death row.