The removal of the death penalty as an option could lead to a quick guilty plea and life sentence, as happened with federal ...

A Japanese man who spent more than 40 years on death row until he was acquitted last year has been awarded $1.4 million in ...

An 89-year-old Japanese man who spent nearly half a century on death row for a 1966 quadruple murder before being exonerated ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Texas death row inmate Areli Escobar, despite support for a new ...

When it comes to death row inmate Darrell Robinson, the Louisiana Supreme Court can't seem to make up its mind.

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of ...

Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from a death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of the prosecutor's ...

March 23 (UPI) -- Hallmark's Brennan Elliott has announced the death of his wife, clinical psychologist Camilla Row. Elliott ...

Abdul-Salaam did receive the death penalty in this case in 1995, after the initial trial. That sentence was overturned by a ...

Iwao Hakamada, 89, who is believed to have been the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, was exonerated last year of a ...