James Hitchcock has lived under a death sentence for nearly half a century. As of Wednesday, his only reprieve lies with the ...

The ACLU has filed a lawsuit challenging the state's denial of forensic testing in the case of death row prisoner Tony ...

PHOENIX (AP) — A May 20 execution has been scheduled for an Arizona man convicted of murder for fatally setting a man on fire during a 2002 attack, marking what would be the state’s first use of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The director of the Idaho prison system has exclusive authority to set and revise the state’s protocols for carrying out the death ...