A state district court judge is challenging a reprimand stemming from a legal dispute with the Harris County District ...

Ralph Menzies spent 36 years on Utah’s death row. He died last year after his execution was stopped over competency concerns. Now a lawmaker says the system is broken — and she wants to speed it up.

Florida has executed Ronald Heath, who became a murderer when he was 16 and killed two other men when he was released from ...

The House Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice Committee heard House Bill 495 that would accelerate appeals processes for capital cases. Attorneys who work on such cases expressed alarm.

Death row inmate Erick Hall, convicted of killing two women in Ada County, died of natural causes Monday, according to Idaho ...

The judge said the criminals were convicted of 'some of the most horrific crimes imaginable.' ...

Erick Hall was convicted of raping and killing two women in Boise, in 2000 and 2003. He died Monday of natural causes with ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 inmates with commuted death sentences ...

"It was like the joy of clemency all over again,” Rejon Taylor, whose death sentence was commuted by Joe Biden, told Newsweek ...

A judge found prosecutors committed a “grave error” when they falsely claimed that one of the condemned inmate’s trial ...

Charles Flores' death row case is before the U.S. Supreme Court, raising concerns about investigative hypnosis, due process, and the safeguards intended to prevent the execution of innocent people.

The Idaho Department of Correction announced that the death row inmate died of natural causes at a local hospital.