Attorneys for a Mississippi death row inmate are asking the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay of execution.The execution for Charles Ray Crawford, 59, is set for Oct. 15. Crawford was sentenced to death ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate who spent 42 years on death row has died of natural causes at a prison hospital, according to the state Department of Corrections. Fred Singleton, 81, was ...

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Labrant Dennis stares at the handcuffs while being led away after the reading of the jury's recommendation for the death penalty. He was convicted for the murders of Marlin Barnes and his friend ...

If Christa Gail Pike's execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a ...

NBC News’ Lester Holt is dropping a new Dateline podcast on Monday, taking a look at the high-profile death row case of Robert Roberson. Roberson, 58, whose execution was delayed last year, has been ...

The man convicted of brutally beating to death a University of Miami linebacker and the killer’s ex-girlfriend almost 30 years ago could be sent back to Death Row in the coming weeks. The resentencing ...

Lawyers for Robert Roberson, the condemned man on Texas’ death row who faces execution next week, say the first episode of a “Dateline” podcast about his case includes “highly relevant” evidence that ...

Tennessee has scheduled the execution of the only woman on the state's death row. According to USA TODAY, Christa Gail Pike was just 18 years old when she and two others lured romantic rival Colleen ...