For the first time in decades, Texas death row inmates are experiencing a change in daily life: no handcuffs, no solitary, ...

The program allows the selected prisoners to spend several hours a day outside their cells and allows them to enjoy communal meals, TV time, prayer circles and - for the first time in decades - direct ...

Death Row Inmates Plead for Humanity. William Lynd will be the first to be executed in more than seven months. By ABC News. May 5, 2008, 10:17 AM.

Death row inmate Nikolaus Johnson had someone operating a Facebook page for him. By ABC News. March 12, 2010, 3:38 PM. March 15, 2010 — -- Death row inmate #421296 was looking for friends.

Attorneys for Ralph Menzies, who is set to be executed Sept. 5, are seeking clemency from the state parole board, citing his ...

A Davidson County judge is holding a rare hearing Tuesday morning that could impact how Tennessee carries out the execution ...

Florida has 271 inmates on death row. Due to appellate rules in death cases, some of them have been there since the 1970s.

Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were denied without comment by the U.S. Supreme Court, was sentenced to death in 1976 fo… ...

Richard Jordan, seen in 2008, was executed Wednesday, June 25, 2025, in Mississippi after sitting on death row since his 1976 conviction, one of the longest waits for an inmate awaiting the death ...

This story was updated following the execution. COLUMBIA — Inmate Stephen Stanko, who was sentenced to death twice in separate cases, was executed Friday by lethal injection. The 57-year-old was ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the constitutionality of state laws governing DNA testing. By a vote of 6-3, the ...

2 death row inmates executed in Florida, Alabama minutes apart for grisly murders By . David Propper. Published June 10, 2025, 8:24 p.m. ET.