Death penalty cases cost taxpayers significantly more than cases where inmates serve life sentences. Capital cases are more ...

Billy Leon Kearse spent 29 years on death row for killing Fort Pierce police Sgt. Danny Parrish in 1991 — and the case likely ...

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For the first time in more than 200 years, Tennessee is preparing to execute a woman on death row. Christa Gail Pike’s case ...

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed’s fight for DNA testing nearly three years ...

The Florida death row killer executed Tuesday night for the grisly rape and murder of a married mom reportedly devoured a ...

From prison on his scheduled execution day, Charles “Sonny" Burton said he feels he “dodged death" after receiving clemency.

Texas death row inmate Cedric Ricks, convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend and her 8-year-old son, apologized to a surviving victim before execution.

Georgia's long-running fight over how and when it can carry out death sentences landed back before the state Supreme Court on ...

Rodney Reed’s quest over the last decade to obtain DNA testing to try to prove his innocence has attracted wide attention.

An Orange County judge has denied Tommy Zeigler a new trial, ruling new DNA evidence doesn’t prove the 80-year-old is innocent in a 1975 quadruple murder.

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from longtime Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed who has sought to test crime-scene ...