A federal judge banned Alabama from executing an inmate by nitrogen hypoxia, calling the method unconstitutionally cruel.

Clarence Jordan has been a death row inmate for 48 years, yet his execution was never carried out. Jordan, now 70, was ...

A federal appeals court has ruled that Alabama’s use of nitrogen gas to put prisoners to death needs more study of whether it violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

A Harris County judge formally resentenced Clarence Jordan to life imprisonment after he spent nearly half a century on death ...

The U.S. Supreme Court denied a request to hear the appeal of Tony Terrell Clark, a man on Mississippi death row for ...

In a case that raised questions about racial bias in the criminal justice system, the Supreme Court threw out the murder ...

The justices' order ends a two-year watch on a petition that death penalty opponents filed directly with the state high court ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) – Tennessee death row inmate Tony Carruthers, who was facing execution by lethal injection Thursday morning, was granted a one year stay of execution after officials struggled ...

Three American inmates are set to be executed on Wednesday and Thursday in what stands to become the deadliest week for the death penalty in the U.S. so far this year. Arizona is set to execute Leroy ...

The Supreme Court took the unusual step on Thursday of dismissing a case that it had already heard, handing a rare win to a death-row prisoner and avoiding a ruling that could have made it harder for ...