The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

Vietnam veteran Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi nearly 50 years after being sentenced to death.

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA ...

Vietnam has lifted the death penalty for eight crimes in legal reforms that may spare the life of a real estate tycoon ...

Vietnam will remove the death penalty for eight offences from next month, including embezzlement and activities aimed at ...

Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for a woman's murder in 1976.

After four trials, 79-year-old Richard Gerald Jordan was executed in Mississippi for the 1976 murder of Edwina Marter, a ...