Some of America's death row inmates are getting a rare set of privileges which inmates say have "given guys hope". Death row in Texas is considered one of the harshest in the nation. For decades ...

Prison officials moved inmate Oscar Franklin Smith from his death row cell to another room next to the chamber where he is to be executed by lethal injection. Smith's attorney, Kelley Henry, a chief ...

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 ...

A Florida man, on death row for the heinous 1995 Cracker Barrel murders that sent shockwaves through the Naples community, has died. Brandy Bain Jennings, 55, died of cancer on May 18, after 29 years ...

As he stepped out of his prison cell, Rudy Medrano couldn’t figure out what to do with his hands. Cross them in front of his chest? Dangle them awkwardly by his side? During the nearly two decades ...

When the state decides to take a life, the rationale behind it should be crystal clear, as should the series of decisions that propel inmates from their death row cells to the execution chamber. Gov.