In an unusual case, death row inmate Richard Glossip was backed by the state's Republican attorney general, who agreed the ...

Richard Glossip’s case became a focal point in the national debate over the death penalty, which critics say is unjust or ...

The justices heard arguments in the case of a man on death row in Texas who claims DNA testing could spare his life.

The Supreme Court gave an Oklahoma death row inmate a new chance to prove his innocence, siding with his lawyers and the ...

Louisiana inmate Christopher Sepulvado died Saturday, just over three weeks before he was scheduled to be put to death for ...

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, "from natural causes as a ...

The state's highest court upheld a law transferring more control of death penalty cases from local district attorneys to the ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill asked a federal appeals court to halt a district judge's decision to reopen a case ...

An octogenarian death row inmate scheduled to be Louisiana's first person put to death in 15 years next month has died, ...

Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma man who has been on death row since 1998, will be removed from potential execution and face a ...

Sepulvado was Louisiana's oldest prisoner on death row at 81. "The idea that the State was planning to strap this tiny, frail ...