Death Row
Amber McLaughlin, 49, is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for killing a former girlfriend in 2003.
Ten years after being sentenced to death for the murder of his 8-month pregnant wife, Laci, Scott Peterson is 'comfortably' living on death row on taxpayer money.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined an attorney request to stop the execution of Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, for the 1990 fatal shooting of Houston police officer James Irby.
A Texas court's decision that led to allowing an alleged racially biased juror to remain on the jury was "plainly erroneous," Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in her dissent.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
WHAT'S HAPPENING
California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to move all condemned inmates from San Quentin State Prison to other prisons.
The state’s Pardon and Parole Board twice voted in favor of granting clemency to Jones, who has long maintained his innocence.
Oklahoma already botched one execution last month and plans to proceed with more despite ongoing litigation over the lethal injection process.
Clinton Young, on death row 18 years, insists he's innocent. The revelation that his prosecutor was on the judge’s payroll could give him another chance to prove it.
"Brandon Bernard was a different person from the teenager arrested over 20 years earlier. Up until the end, he did not think he would be executed because he knew he had reformed."
The 48-year-old Maryland man maintained his innocence up until his death. He was the 13th and final person executed during Trump’s term.