This post will be updated throughout the day. Live updates will be added at the top of this page. An Alabama Death Row inmate is set to be executed tonight for the 1991 slaying of a woman in her ...

A man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment is set to be executed Thursday in Alabama in what ...

Alabama became the first state to carry out executions with nitrogen gas when three inmates were put to death using the ...

Frazier is set to die by nitrogen gas for the murder of Pauline Brown in Birmingham, Alabama in 1991. Critics say the method amounts to torture.

Wendell Arden Grissom, 56, was convicted and sentenced to death by a Blaine County jury in 2008 for the 2005 shooting death of Amber Matthews during a robbery at a Watonga residence. Matthews was ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Attorneys for an Alabama death row inmate scheduled to be executed next month have filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to postpone the execution. In the lawsuit, the federal ...

It is the second time in a year justices have given another chance to a high-profile Oklahoma death row inmate with an innocence claim. Justices last January agreed to consider Richard Glossip's ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a rare ruling in favor of a death row inmate, finding that an Oklahoma woman convicted of murdering her estranged husband can pursue a claim that prosecutors ...

As of Friday, 939 prison inmates have been deployed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to help contain the blazes, the department confirmed to CBS News.