Typically, Death Row inmates spend as much as 22 hours a day alone in their tiny cells, which are usually ”in the bowels of prisons,” shut off from sunlight and most human contact.

Living on death row, caught in a system that caught and punished the wrong person. In July of 2023, Simmons was released from prison after a judge vacated his sentence.

President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is taking 37 people off federal death row to serve out life sentences behind bars — a decision that leaves only three federal prisoners awaiting ...

Dr. George Woods is a neuropsychiatry specialist in California who offered expert testimony in the 2010 case of another death ...

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

News & Politics Religious Leaders Are Pleading for the Life of a Death Row Inmate. In Texas, Mercy Is in Short Supply. Those who know Ramiro Gonzales say he’s utterly transformed since ...

His Jan. 17, 2006, death by lethal injection came about a month after the state put to death 51-year-old Stanley Tookie Williams, the former Crips gang founder.

A Chancery Court judge says the state must disconnect the heart defibrillator shortly before the inmate's August execution to avoid a prolonged death.

The sentences of the last two men remaining on the state’s death row—Anthony Juniper and Thomas Porter—will be automatically converted to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Those are some of the questions that came to mind as I read “Right Here, Right Now: Life Stories from America’s Death Row,” a collection of powerful and often wrenching first-person stories ...

A double killer who has been on Death Row for 25 years has opened up about the grim reality of his situation. Charles Thompson was found guilty of a double homicide in 1998 after he shot his ex ...