While the men’s death warrants were signed before Donald Trump took office January 20, the state executioners and the US judiciary were certainly emboldened to see these executions through to ...

A death penalty expert has offered insight into the chilling final act of Arizona inmate Aaron Brian Gunches as he was put to ...

Lawyers of a death row inmate from Tyler have filed a petition to reinvestigate and vacate the man's conviction, saying his ...

With the iconic Los Angeles-based music label Death Row Records making headlines again, here is what to know about the label and its famous owner.

For nearly four decades, David Leonard Wood has languished on Texas Death Row, convicted of the brutal murders of six women and girls in El Paso — despite a glaring absence of DNA evidence ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, chose to be killed by bullets, saying he feared the alternatives of the electric chair and lethal injection would risk a slower and more painful death. He was convicted of beating ...

Death by firing squad and medical-aid in dying, taking an oral solution of drugs mixed with apple juice, are alternative execution methods that would be more “humane,” Hoffman’s attorneys said.

A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more ...

A killer on death row has become the first US prisoner in 15 years to be executed by firing squad. Brad Sigmon, 67, was granted permission to choose the manner of his execution after comlaining he ...

A wife has been saved from death row after a British professor stepped in to help with her case, making a major discovery about her trial for killing her husband. Brenda Andrew, 61, has been ...

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