died Saturday on death row. He was 70. Powers' official cause of death is pending the medical examiner's report, a spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Correction said. He had advanced ...

Iwao Hakamada, wrongfully convicted of murder, spent over four decades on death row before being awarded $1.4 million for his suffering. This payout highlights issues in Japan’s justice system.

Kevin Burns is the pastor of the Church of Life, a congregation for the men on Tennessee's death row. Burns was convicted of felony murder and sentenced to death, but he maintains he was at the ...

She accused Death Row Records, Time Warner, Universal Music Group, and Interscope Records of conspiring to avoid paying her a $107 million judgment a judge in Los Angeles issued in 2005.

Japan has awarded a wrongly convicted man who was on death row for close to half a century compensation of 217 million yen ($1.44m). The legal team for Iwao Hakamada, released last year after his ...

A Japanese man who spent more than 40 years on death row until he was acquitted last year has been awarded $1.4 million in compensation, a court said on Tuesday – roughly $85 for each day he was ...

SHREVEPORT, La. – A motion seeking a death warrant for a Shreveport man on death row has been filed in Caddo District Court. District Attorney James Stewart filed the motion Monday asking for an ...

The Attorney General's Office has identified 24 death row inmates who have exhausted appeals. Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell has pledged to intervene if the Attorney General's Office ...

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of the prosecutor's office that originally put him on death row. The ...

A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded US$1.45 million in compensation, an official said on Tuesday. The payout ...

A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets. Mikal Mahdi, who pleaded guilty to murder for ...