Gerald Powers, a Tennessee man who a judge sentenced to death 26 years ago, died Saturday on death row. He was 70. Powers' official cause of death is pending the medical examiner's report, a ...

Indiana Supreme Court justices on Tuesday set a May 20 execution date for death row inmate Benjamin ... men remain on the state’s death row at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - On Friday, the South Carolina Department of Corrections executed its second death row inmate by firing squad since the state reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

An inmate at a high security prison has been arrested in connection with a probe into the death of a convicted murderer ... with a broken plate during a row over cooking chores.

Idaho is far from the only state that allows the use ... going into effect is meant to give the prison officials time to complete renovations to the death chamber. There are currently nine inmates on ...

Filmmaker Nanfu Wang documents Cuban activist Rosa María Payá’s fight for democracy after her father’s state-sponsored ... in a Texas supermax prison: death row inmates using their final ...

“Pablo Torre Finds Out: Watching the Dallas Cowboys on Death Row” (Meadowlark Media) “Correspondent David Fleming explores an unusual phenomenon in a Texas supermax prison: death row inmates ...

A man convicted of murdering a South Carolina police officer was executed by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi, 42, was shot in the ...