The family of Anthony Boyd, an Alabama inmate set to be executed later this month, begged for his life to be spared at a press conference Wednesday morning. “This is not just about me. This is about ...

Editor's note: This database contains descriptions of violent crimes. There are 113 people sitting on Ohio's death row. Some were sentenced to death decades ago, for murders committed in the 1980s and ...

Charles Ray Crawford is scheduled for execution in October 2025 for the 1993 kidnapping and murder of a Mississippi college student. Lawyers are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the execution, ...

Gloria Rubac remembers the thick crowd, primarily composed of students from Sam Houston State University, and the way they cheered outside the red-brick Texas State Penitentiary as the sun set. Having ...

States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions ...

FURTHER DANGER OF EXPLOSIONS. THE LONGEST SERVING DEATH ROW INMATE IN SOUTH CAROLINA DIED TODAY. THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS CONFIRMED 77 YEAR OLD FRED SINGLETON, WHO HAD BEEN ON ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Kentucky's attorney general is joining a push for Gov. Andy Beshear to authorize the execution of an inmate who has spent decades on death row. Ralph Baze was sentenced to ...

After three executions in less than a year — ending a nearly 15-year pause in Indiana’s use of capital punishment — it’s not clear when the state will carry out another. Five men remain on Indiana’s ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina inmate who spent 42 years on death row has died of natural causes at a prison hospital, according to the state Department of Corrections. Fred Singleton, 81, was ...

Barbed wired fencing guides a path to a Kirkland Correctional Institution dorm in Columbia, SC. Gavin McIntyre [email protected] The longest-serving inmate on death row in South Carolina died of ...