Attorneys for Byron Black, a Tennessee death row inmate, have filed a request with the state Supreme Court to deny a request ...

A Tennessee hospital says it never agreed to a request by state officials who face a court order to turn off a death row ...

A local hospital where the state has been ordered to disconnect a death row inmate’s heart device before his execution now says it never agreed to perform the procedure.

Byron Black, a Tennessee death row inmate, has filed a petition for writ of certiorari, or a higher court review, with the ...

Florida has executed more people than any other state this year and is on track to set new modern-day records.

Attorneys for death row inmate Byron Black are asking the Supreme Court to step in as questions loom about his intellectual ...

A death row inmate who suffers from dementia, brain damage and heart failure has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme court.

Tennessee officials must deactivate a death-row inmate 's implanted heart-regulating device to avert the risk that it might ...

Ending capital punishment would advance South Korea’s transition to a democracy that respects human rights, including the right to life.

A Texas man on death row is now scheduled to be put to death in October for his conviction in the death of his 2-year-old daughter.

Death row convict Jimmie "Chris" Duncan, imprisoned for 32 years for alleged rape and murder of a two-year-old, now has been adjudged actually innocent. Columnist Quin Hillyer argues that bail ...