Newsom’s past actions have made it clear he deplores capital punishment as deeply as many civil rights advocates,” writes ...

A twice-convicted murderer who had repeatedly said he wanted to die by lethal injection was found dead in his death-row prison cell from an apparent hanging, officials said Saturday. Scott Raymond ...

Chuck Thompson has been on Texas Death Row for 27 years and is set to be executed in January. Credit: April Towery For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three ...

>> LOOK AT THIS BEHIND US. THIS IS THE NUMBER OF DEATH PENALTY EXECUTIONS IN OUR COUNTRY SINCE 1977. YOU SEE THE LATE 90'S. THAT WAS THE PEAK. BUT THEN A GRADUAL DECLINE. >> THAT IS UNTIL NOW. THIS UP ...

Prison officials moved inmate Harold Wayne Nichols from his death row cell to another room next to the chamber where he is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection. Nichols, 64, was placed on ...

Death row intensifies the structured brutalities of the penal system and reminds us why the struggle against the death ...