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Douglas Stewart Carter has argued that in addition to police and prosecutorial misconduct, his own confession was coerced.
Lawyers for convicted murderer Benjamin Ritchie want to delay the May 20 execution so they can present new evidence.
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Indian Consulate in Indonesia to extend urgent legal assistance and facilitate communication for three Indian nationals sentenced to death on ...
While many death row inmates are given the choice of what they would like to eat as their final meal, prisoners in Texas no longer have this privilege. As of 2022, 55 countries across the globe still ...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed on June 25, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Richard Gerald Jordan, 78, who was sentenced to ...
SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - A decision came down from the First Judicial District Court Tuesday, April 29 in the case of a Caddo Parish death row inmate seeking reprieve. District Court Judge Donald ...
This story has been updated to reflect a stay of execution for one of the death row inmates previously assigned a September execution date. Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate ...
The former Death Row boss appeared virtually in court from a San Diego prison on Tuesday (April 29) and verbally agreed to the settlement while Carter’s widow, Lillian, and daughters Nekaya and ...
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s nominee to lead U.S. Customs and Border Protection is facing scrutiny for his role in an investigation into the death of ... in a cover-up and is unqualified ...
For the second time in as many weeks, the judge in charge of Bryan Kohberger’s upcoming murder trial rejected arguments from the defense to remove a possible death sentence for the defendant if ...
The Trump administration has disputed claims that three children, who are US citizens, were deported to Honduras alongside their mothers. One of the youngsters is a four-year-old boy with Stage 4 ...
INDIANAPOLIS (INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE) — Clemency hearings for Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie will take place in the coming weeks as the condemned man’s legal team fights to delay ...