The decision affirms a lower court’s ruling nullifying Jimmie “Chris” Duncan’s 1998 first-degree murder conviction. Duncan was convicted based in part on forensic evidence that is now widely regarded ...

The state is accused of unfairly favoring some prisoners over others. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has revived a lawsuit by some Georgia death row prisoners alleging the state is ...

As Brenda Andrew sat quietly in an Oklahoma courtroom, a prosecutor held up a pair of her thong underwear for jurors. Would a grieving widow really wear such a sexy undergarment, he asked them? The ...

Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Darrell Hines are again asking Gov. Bill Lee to delay Hines' scheduled execution, ...

A new murder trial is due to begin in September for Richard Glossip, the former Oklahoma inmate who spent decades on the state's death row and was nearly executed three times before the Supreme Court ...

Dusty Ray Spencer, the oldest inmate sentenced to die in Florida's modern history, is set to be executed later today. Spencer, now 74, was convicted of killing his wife, Karen, 34 years ago in Orange ...

The host of “The Last 12 Weeks” shares surprising data on executions. By Maurice Chammah Hi there, In “The Last 12 Weeks,” one of the more surprising facts about David Wood’s case is just how long ...

A 74-year-old Florida man was executed on Thursday for his conviction in the 1992 fatal stabbing of his wife, making him the oldest inmate in modern state history to be put to death. Dusty Ray Spencer ...

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When Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine called on lawmakers to abolish the state's death penalty last week, he wouldn’t tell reporters if he would spare any of the more than 100 people on death row. Three weeks ...

Florida executed a 74-year-old death row inmate on Thursday, making him the oldest person put to death in the state’s modern history. According to Fox News , Dusty Ray Spencer was pronounced dead at 6 ...

A man removed from death row in 2021 after reaching a new deal with Nashville District Attorney's Office has died. Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman died in Riverbend Maximum Security Institution early on June 21, ...