California death row inmate Julian Mendez killed in Kern Valley State Prison allegedly involving more than 30 inmates, with Mario Renteria as the alleged initial attacker.

Latavious Johnson, a death row inmate, was pronounced dead at about 3:30 p.m. at the Varner Supermax in Gould, according to the Arkansas Department of Correctio ...

South Carolina’s electric chair is located in Columbia at the Broad River Correctional Institute. The state has not carried out an execution since May 2011. The death penalty is on hold while ...

Ralph Menzies, a convicted killer in Utah who developed dementia during his decades on death row, is competent enough to be executed, a state judge ruled on Friday.

MEMPHIS, Tenn., (AP) — A Tennessee judge did not have the authority to give Pervis Payne, who was formerly on death row, concurrent sentences of life in prison after ruling that he was ...

Payne had been on death row for the killings of a woman and her 2-year-old daughter. In January 2022, Judge Paula Skahan sentenced Payne to concurrent sentences of life with the possibility of ...

Former death row inmate Pervis Payne must serve his two life sentences consecutively, the Tennessee Supreme Court decided June 16. Payne will now not be eligible for parole until 2056.

As Florida inserts a needle to deliver a fatal drug to Anthony Wainwright, Alabama will strap a mask on Greg Hunt and pump him with nitrogen gas.