Arizona's infamous convicted murderer, Bryan Patrick Miller, better known as the "Zombie Hunter," is not faring too well on death row and has been complaining a lot lately.
Scott Peterson has been removed from death row more than two years after the California Supreme Court overturned his death sentence for killing his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson.
Stanislaus County District Attorney Birgit Fladager said that their position on Scott Peterson's murder case is that he is not eligible to be on death row.
The U.S. government has decided to delay the execution of the only woman on federal death row. The U. S. government has decided to delay the execution of the only woman on federal death row.
Death row inmates at a Livingston-area prison sued the state's prison system after drastic health and safety conditions put them at great risk of contracting the new coronavirus.
San Quentin is infamous for gang-related race riots and internal exploitation. The prison is home to six notorious gangs: the Mexican Mafia, Ayran Brotherhood, Nuestra Familia, Nazi Low Riders, the Bloods, and the Crips.
Just in time for Veterans Day, the Death Penalty Information Center released a report revealing that about 300 U.S. veterans are currently on death row in prisons across the nation.
After spending nearly 30 years on Alabama's death row, 58-year-old Anthony Ray Hinton was freed on Friday after prosecutors finally acknowledged that the case against him lacked sufficient evidence to tie him to the murders of two fast-food workers in 1985.
The United States Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear two cases, one dealing with Confederate flag license plates from Texas and the other dealing with mentally ill death row inmates.
Over a dozen national leaders of the conservative movement have come together to script and sign a letter to Tex. Governor Rick Perry, asking him to commute the upcoming death sentence of a severely mentally ill inmate to a life sentence, if agreed upon by the State Board of Pardons and Paroles.
Glenn Ford, Louisiana's longest-served death row inmate, walked free this Tuesday after spending close to three decades behind bars for a murder he did not commit.
Death by firing squad may seem an antiquated method of execution for prisoners facing the death penalty, but the method may become more mainstream as a number of states across the country consider its adoption.