George Gascón calls for the abolition of the death penalty, citing Marcellus Williams' execution as a stark reminder of its ...

Garcia Glen White, 60, is scheduled to be executed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice after living behind bars for ...

Lawyers for three former Memphis officers have rested their cases without calling them to testify in their defense against ...

The Indiana Office of the Attorney General submitted a request Friday to set an execution date for Benjamin Ritchie, who was convicted in 2002 for killing a law enforcement officer from Beech Grove.

The Shizuoka district court acquitted 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada on Thursday, clearing him of all charges in a retrial of the ...

Besides Corcoran and Ritchie, two other men on death row similarly have exhausted their appeals and may be subject to the ...

Robert Roberson sits on death row in Texas. The man largely responsible for putting him there is Brian Wharton who now says ...

Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, was acquitted in Japan after 48 years in prison for a 1966 quadruple murder he did not commit. His defense team plans to sue the government ...

In the coming months, a slew of legal and procedural processes are expected to play out ahead of Jospeh Corcoran’s scheduled ...

A lawyer for the world’s longest-serving death row inmate — who was acquitted in a retrial last week of a 1966 quadruple ...

Robert Roberson has been on Death Row in Texas for more than two decades after he was convicted of the murder of his toddler ...

Last month, a city in Oklahoma agreed to pay more than $7 million to a former death row inmate who was exonerated after ...