A South Carolina inmate whose best friend and four other inmates have been put to death in less than a year appears to want ...

The attorney for death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith confirmed overnight that the 75-year-old has been put on "death watch" ...

Back in 2011, a sudden change to Texas law meant that death row inmates would no longer be granted their final meal requests.

A South Carolina inmate whose best friend and four other inmates have been put to death in less than a year appears to want to die himself.

Oscar Franklin Smith's last meal will be delivered to him hours before the planned execution. He is set to die by lethal ...

Benjamin Ritchie became the second person executed in Indiana in 15 years on Tuesday as, more than two decades after killing ...

Gregory Hunt, convicted of the 1998 murder and sexual assault of Karen Lane, will argue that he killed but did not sexually ...

James Robertson, 51, has been on death row since 1999 after killing both his parents in their Rock Hill home. Now he says he's ready to die.

James Edward Smith was sentenced to death by lethal injection in June 1990 following the murder of life insurance worker ...

One of two men convicted in the brutal deaths of three Cracker Barrel employees in 1995 dies in infirmary, reports say.

Death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie was executed by lethal injection shortly after midnight Tuesday at the Indiana State Prison ...

Tennessee is set to execute its first death row inmate in years. Here's which states have the death penalty and which methods are still practiced.