This is the third time Todd Kelvin Wessinger's death sentence was vacated and remanded back to state court for a new trial ...

Japan executed a 34-year-old death row inmate known as the "Twitter Killer," who was convicted of killing nine people at his apartment south of Tokyo in 2017.

Clive Stafford Smith, who is retired from Death Row law, continues to campaign against the penalty and claims the US is ...

By Crystal Tisme Click here for updates on this story PARCHMAN, Mississippi (WAPT) -- Mississippi held a state-sanctioned execution ...

A judge ruled that he has the authority to weigh an injunction over California's claim that President Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act.

Twenty-five men died by execution so far this year in the U.S. Four other people are scheduled to be put to death in three states.

Nearly five decades after being convicted of murder, a Mississippi man got executed. Can that happen in NJ, PA?

Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest serving and oldest death row inmate, died by lethal injection Wednesday evening at the ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Texas death row inmate who is seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible ...

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

A Mississippi man who had been on death row for nearly 50 years was executed by lethal injection today, one of two executions ...

A Mississippi man who had been on death row for nearly 50 years was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday (Thursday ...