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.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 inmates with commuted death sentences to the nation’s highest security federal prison.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Former death row inmate Richard Glossip is asking a judge to release him on bond while he awaits his third murder trial in ...

From meals to showers to visitors, this is what life is like on Florida's death row for convicted killer Wade Wilson.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's plans to relocate former death row inmates to a supermax ...

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