Paul “Greg” House, who spent more than two decades on Tennessee's death row before he was finally freed, has died.

Harris was among the last surviving members of the historic 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, nicknamed the Triple Nickles.

A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world's longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded more than ...

Nine inmates on Tennessee’s death row have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s new lethal injection protocol citing a high risk of torturous death and what they say is a history of ...

Khaleda Rahman is Newsweek's National Correspondent based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on education and national news. Khaleda joined Newsweek in 2019 and had previously worked at the ...

Holberg has been on death row for 27 years. In securing her conviction in 1998, Randall County prosecutors heavily relied on testimony from a jail inmate who was working as a confidential ...

FROM A JUDGE ON WHETHER THE USE OF GAS TO EXECUTE A DEATH ROW INMATE IS CONSTITUTIONAL ... THERE’S NO WAY TO GAS A LIVING CREATURE IN A WAY THAT ISN’T DISGUSTING. LITIGATORS WITH THE PROMISE ...

Back when he was put on death row, the assumed execution method was a lethal injection, but those drugs have been hard to come by in recent years --leading to a backlog on death row and now the ...

Richard Jordan has been on death row in Mississippi since 1977 for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter, the wife of a Gulfport bank executive. At 78, Jordan is the oldest prisoner on ...

On the other hand, prosecutors have demanded the defense stop referring to the state's intent to seek the death penalty if there is a conviction as "an attempt to kill" the defendant. In what ...