The Tennessee Supreme Court refused to hear Christa Pike's challenge to her death sentence, but another case won her more ...

At times, Freddie Eugene Owens' letters are incredibly vulnerable as he says he's "also human." At others they threaten ...

Wade Wilson, 30, has officially started the appeal process after being sentenced to death for murdering two women in October ...

If it moves forward, it will be the state's first execution in 13 years and the 14th execution in the nation this year. It's ...

What’s your biggest secret, the one thing you’ve never told anyone? For Steven Golden, it was the truth about what happened ...

Campaigners against the death penalty have long argued that the practice, carried out by shooting an inmate in the heart from ...

Taiwan has carried out 35 executions since a moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in 2010, with the latest occurring ...

Taiwan’s Constitutional Court was hearing petitions filed by roughly three dozen prisoners on death row who argued that the ...

One of the most popular death row meals in history are that of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who didn't hold back when ...

State Senator John Whitmire said Brewer was trying to 'make a mockery' of the system with his ridiculous final meal order.

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