Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.

Raymond Lee Oyler set a fire that killed five firefighters in 2006. The California Supreme Court will decide if he remains on death row, writes Robin Epley of The Sacramento Bee.

Surrounded by four sheriff’s deputies, Alvarez, 26, looked squarely at San Mateo County ... faces a tough life as a death-row inmate away from the regular prison population.

Authorities say Trooper Nikky Green was fatally shot with his own gun while trying to arrest Ricky Malone for allegedly ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

A Tennessee death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, the quality of ...

The Allan B. Polunsky Unit, the prison that houses Death Row inmates in Livingston, Texas, is pictured on Jan. 22, 2025. Tabler decided not to fight his execution in the court system any longer ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and ... In 2008, he prompted a massive lockdown throughout the state's 150,000-inmate prison system when he smuggled a cellphone into the ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 12 death row inmates have so far been scheduled for execution in South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, Oklahoma and Ohio. On his first day ...

James Dennis Ford, 64, was pronounced dead at 6:19 p.m. following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison ... that stops the heart to put inmates to death.