SAN FRANCISCO — By age 46, Bob Williams had spent more than half his life in isolation, waiting to die on San Quentin’s death row. Williams was 18 when he raped and murdered 40-year-old Mary ...

While many death row inmates are given the choice of what they would like to eat as their final meal, prisoners in Texas no longer have this privilege. As of 2022, 55 countries across the globe still ...

Several district attorneys have considered charging former death row prisoners whose sentences were commuted by former President Joe Biden months after a White House executive order called on them ...

Death Row Records is in the gospel business. Today, the legendary label released Altar Call, a 21-track project featuring celebrated singers such as Jamie Foxx, John P. Kee, and others.

died Saturday on death row. He was 70. Powers' official cause of death is pending the medical examiner's report, a spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Correction said. He had advanced ...

On death row, he built a life amid the dank cells of concrete and iron stacked five stories high. He soaked up books on philosophy and spirituality, finding solace in the poem "Invictus." ...

The lawsuit, filed in March 2025, demands $107 million in damages related to Harris’s claimed stake in Death Row Records, the influential hip-hop label now owned by Snoop Dogg. Harris asserts ...

For prisoners, the transfers off a dismantled death row have brought a broad variety of experiences and emotions. By age 46, Bob Williams had spent more than half his life in isolation ...

Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled for execution on May 22, will die by lethal injection if the process moves forward. Smith, who was asked to choose between lethal ...

In his short story Cat and Mice, Chinese writer Lu Xun relates the morbid theatrics of a snake that swallowed a frog and vomited it on each occasion. The embattled frog wished the cruel joke was ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25 JACKSON, Miss. -- Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be ...

Richard Jordan, Mississippi's oldest death row inmate, has been given a June 25 execution date. Jordan was sentenced to death for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter. His attorneys are ...