Thursday, a hearing was held before Trumbull County Court of Common Pleas Judge Sean O'Brien regarding the murder conviction ...

A Texas death row inmate with a long history of mental illness, and who tried to call Jesus Christ and John F. Kennedy as trial witnesses, is not competent to be executed, a federal judge ruled.

In South Carolina, the governor has the lone ability to grant clemency and reduce a death sentence to life in prison. However ...

(CNN) — A death row inmate in Missouri who has long claimed his innocence and is scheduled to be executed in less than one week asked ... clemency instead of execution — if the Governor had not ...

A Greenville County inmate will be the first person to face execution in South Carolina since 2011. Freddie Eugene Owens, 46, was ordered to be executed ... “The state did not ‘inflict ...

WASHINGTON (CNN)-- An Ohio death row inmate who says he is too overweight to be executed took his plea to ... How could he commit such a heinous act and not feel regret?" But Cooey's lawyer ...

The Greenville man convicted of murder in 1999 will be the 44th person the state has put to death since 1976 and the first ...

The state Supreme Court decided in July that all three were constitutional, despite arguments from inmates, including Owens, ...

In a new court filing, lawyers for death row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies are asking a judge to disqualify the Utah Attorney ...

WASHINGTON (CNN)-- An Ohio death row inmate was executed Tuesday after the Supreme ... over vein access prior to July 2005." Ohio does not serve a "last meal," as death-row inmates are given ...