Death row exonerees Alfred Rivera, Ed Chapman and Henry McCollum meet at an event sponsored by the N.C. Coalition for ...

Our state leads the nation in putting killers to death this year, but no one really believes death sentences are working.

Before Arizona’s latest execution, which was carried out in March, the average length of stay on death row for the last six ...

In the fragile space between life and death, Florida prison inmates sit in a damp jail cell waiting to learn their fate.

A Florida man who fatally stabbed his estranged wife’s sister and parents and then set fire to their house is scheduled for ...

Tristan Tan's sentence for drug trafficking was commuted to life imprisonment. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Before Arizona’s latest execution, which was carried out in March, the average length of stay on death row for the last six ...

In May 1990, Pittman went to the Polk County home of his wife Marie's parents, Clarence and Barbara Knowles, during their divorce proceedings. Pittman fatally stabbed the elderly couple along with ...

A TV version of The Rainmaker is out this week, which gave critic Linda Holmes as good a reason as any to rank the on-screen ...

A 21-year-old Ukrainian woman has been arrested in Bali for smuggling designer drugs and could face Indonesia's harshest penalty – execution by firing squad – under strict narcotics laws ...

The Grisham formula: Grisham’s hallmark plot pits a decent, everyday protagonist against powerful forces like the government, ...

David Pittman, 63, is set to die on September 17 in the record-extending 12th execution scheduled for this year, as two other men await execution later this month ...