Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...

A Harrisburg man potentially facing the death penalty just fired his public defender and told a judge he would represent ...

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

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

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

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 has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

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