Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are asking the state Supreme Court to halt his execution, arguing that the judge who sentenced him never considered the extent of his brain damage caused ...

A South Carolina death row inmate convicted of killing a man and writing a message to investigators with the victim’s blood more than 20 years ago elected on Friday to die by firing squad. Stephen ...

Ralph LeRoy Menzies, who spent more than 37 years on Utah’s death row for kidnapping and killing a young mother in 1986, died on Wednesday at an area hospital, prison officials announced. He was 67.

Read full article: Judge demands DNA evidence list in Tommy Zeigler case Death row inmate William "Tommy” Zeigler, photographed at age 75. WINTER GARDEN, Fla. – For the first time in decades, a judge ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Death row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies, whose execution by firing squad was put on hold in August so he could have a new competency hearing, has died of natural causes. The Utah ...

A psychologist issued his clinical opinion Friday that death row inmate Ralph Menzies, who was set to be executed before it got appealed, is incompetent to be executed. Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, was a ...

Chuck Thompson has been on Texas Death Row for 27 years and is set to be executed in January. Credit: April Towery For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are asking the governor to convert his sentence to life imprisonment with just a month until his scheduled ...

A Louisiana man who spent nearly 30 years on death row walked out of prison Wednesday after a judge overturned his conviction and granted him bail. Jimmie Duncan, now in his 60s, was sentenced to ...

FIRST ON FOX — Two federal inmates previously on death row — one a crooked New Orleans cop, the other behind a multi-state killing spree — have been transferred to a notorious "supermax" prison in ...

NEW ORLEANS -- A Louisiana man who spent nearly three decades on death row was released on bail Wednesday after his conviction was overturned earlier this year. Jimmie Duncan had originally been ...