Jimmie Duncan was originally convicted of first-degree murder in 1998 after being accused by prosecutors of raping and drowning his girlfriend’s toddler in a bathtub.

A lawsuit filed on behalf of 21 inmates seeks to prevent them from being transferred to a notorious federal supermax prison ...

North Carolina lawmakers will discuss a bill Tuesday that would give death row inmates the option to choose between three execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, or firing squad.

In a last-minute legal maneuver, attorneys for death row inmate Jeffrey Hutchinson filed a motion Wednesday with the Supreme Court of Florida seeking a stay of his scheduled execution. Hutchinson, who ...

When a military judge threw out a defendant’s confession in the Sept. 11 case this month, he gave two main reasons. The ...

While North Carolina hasn’t carried out an execution since 2006, the bill would legalize additional ways to carry out the ...

Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie's clemency hearings are set for the coming weeks as his legal team fights to delay ...

Pee Wee Gaskins was the friendliest and most sociable serial killer Dick Harpootlian has ever met. “You like killing, just ...

A legislative committee on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to a bill that would allow people sentenced to death in North Carolina to choose between three options for their execution: lethal ...

The festival will bring mariachi music, food and entertainment to Long Beach residents on Saturday, May 3, at Veterans Park.

Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear an appeal from a Mississippi death row inmate. Willie Cory Godbolt had ...

After the gospel singer Osinachi's death trial that dragged on for over two years, judgment was eventually delivered. The ...