Lawyers for Dominick Occhicone, who turns 81 next month, say his plan execution is cruel and unusual punishment for the ...

Jerry T. Bunyard hired a childhood friend to kill his pregnant wife in their San Joaquin County home, planning to stage the ...

A California death row inmate convicted in the killings of his pregnant wife and her unborn child has died while incarcerated ...

A Northern California man at the center of one of the state’s most notorious murder-for-hire cases has died after spending ...

Francis C. Smith began his march into the record book 76 years ago. At age 25, he and a partner were arrested for shooting to ...

The 47 women on death row and thousands of others serving life terms face treatment that advocates say is often harsher than ...

An updated guide to Georgia prisoners who have been sentenced to death, including a photo and biographical information for ...

Scott Peterson was convicted in the 2002 murder of his wife Laci Peterson and their unborn child ...

After 29 years, nine execution dates and three last meals, former death row inmate Richard Glossip is out on bond Thursday awaiting retrial after his previous conviction in the murder-for-hire plot of ...