Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman is allowing county prosecutors to seek the death penalty again, reversing a ban ...

Iwao Hakamata was found not guilty last year - 56 years on from being falsely convicted of the murder of his boss and his ...

Iwao Hakamada, 89, who is believed to have been the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, was exonerated last year of a ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (South Dakota Searchlight) – A U.S. Supreme Court case on regulatory rulemaking doesn’t give South Dakota’s only death row inmate a chance to renew and re-litigate the appeals that ...

If Prison Break had been a one-and-done limited series it would have secured a higher placing on this list. As it stands, ...

When it comes to death row inmate Darrell Robinson, the Louisiana Supreme Court can't seem to make up its mind.

Nearly 50 years on death row had inflicted "extremely severe" mental and physical pain on Iwao Hakamata, a judge said.

A federal court judge has denied Briley Wayne Piper's petition to to appeal his death sentence. The man remains on death row.

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of ...

A retired judge poured over boxes of records, interviewed dozens of people at the many nexuses of state executions, and ...

Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for killing an off-duty Orangeburg police officer in Calhoun County, South Carolina.