At least 158 claims were filed for 133 death-row inmates, resulting in more than ... there who had claims filed in their names, including Stayner, convicted of killing four people in Yosemite ...

Heather Mitchell shows a photograph of her husband Marcus Mitchell who has been on death row in Raleigh’s Central Prison for 27 years. He has long been an advocate for death row inmates ...

JASMINE. ELIZABETH, LOUISIANA, HAS NOT HAD AN INMATE ON DEATH ROW EXECUTED IN 15 YEARS. THE INMATE THAT WAS SCHEDULED TO BE PUT TO DEATH NEXT MONTH DIED JUST WEEKS BEFORE HIS EXECUTION DATE.

Prisoners on the North Carolina death row make their way back to their cell block at Central Prison in Raleigh in 2002, not long after a series of reforms began sharply reducing the number of ...

Public attention to the death penalty often focuses on the method of execution and questions about innocence and guilt. But the use of capital punishment has waned in the United States since the ...

It was the first execution of a death row inmate in the state in nearly a decade. Hale was one of seven reporters selected by a grim lottery to witness Billy Ray Irick’s execution at the ...

“After almost 30 years on death row for a crime he did not commit, Barry Jones is finally coming home,” Cary Sandman, a federal public defender whose office has represented Jones for more than ...

Gavin Newsom recently announced the state’s most infamous death row will be shuttered ... serial killer in modern California history, Cary Stayner, 61, has a backstory like no other.