Several Arkansas death row inmates sued the state Tuesday to block a new law allowing executions by nitrogen gas, saying the ...

Ten Arkansas death row inmates filed a lawsuit against the state Tuesday to block a new law allowing executions by nitrogen ...

Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch says death row prisoner Terry Pitchford has no claim with merit to be heard in the ...

Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate was executed on Wednesday, almost 50 years after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a ransom scheme.

Civil Rights and Wrongs is a recurring series by Daniel Harawa covering criminal justice and civil rights cases before the ...

Florida has carried out one-third of the 27 executions so far this year. With 10 more state killings planned, the US is on ...

Longtime death row prisoner Jimmie Duncan, whose 27-year-old murder conviction was vacated this spring, will have to wait a ...

Michael Bernard Bell, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:25 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near ...

Attorneys for 10 Arkansas death row inmates say Arkansas' law allowing executions via nitrogen gas is unconstitutional.