The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled on May 1 that a man on death row has exhausted all his legal remedies and set an execution date, yet the U.S. Supreme Court has not responded to a petition to ...

They are asking Mississippi to stop plans to execute the 79-year-old on death row. "His life is worth saving," supporters of Richard Jordan say. News Sports Business Entertainment Opinion ...

A death row inmate wants to be executed early for ‘justice’ Aaron Gunches asked the Arizona Supreme Court to issue an expedited execution warrant for him more than a decade after he was ...

How Alabama's first nitrogen gas execution transpired 04:19. Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death Tuesday evening in the state's first execution in 15 years ...

Today, more than 2,000 people sit on American death rows. But some may never see an execution chamber. Between moratoriums, court orders and other official edicts, many people on death row are ...

The death penalty is back in the national conversation as several states are reverting to older and less commonly used methods, such as firing squad. But in Georgia, execution alternatives are ...

The men on death row could access self-paced HSE prep programs on electronic tablets, which Central Prison gained in 2022, Acree said. And they received HSE study books in 2024, Mitchell said.

Attorneys for Ralph Leroy Menzies, who's been on death row for 37 years, sought to convince a Utah state judge that the convicted murderer should be spared execution because he has dementia.

Osgood said he thinks more death row inmates are thinking about dropping their appeals, because life without parole is scarier than death. “The scary thing is having to stay here.

An Arizona death row inmate has asked the state Supreme Court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier than officials were planning. Aaron Brian Gunches, 53, had previously ...

Two of the 37 inmates on federal death row whose sentences were commuted to life without parole last month by President Biden are rejecting clemency. Shannon Agofsky, 53, and Len Davis, 60, who ...

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences to life in prison without parole, as they seek to appeal their cases ...