The Tennessee Supreme Court refused to hear Christa Pike's challenge to her death sentence, but another case won her more ...

At times, Freddie Eugene Owens' letters are incredibly vulnerable as he says he's "also human." At others they threaten ...

Freddie Owens' execution appears to be moving forward despite a sworn statement from the man who testified against him that ...

Wade Wilson, 30, has officially started the appeal process after being sentenced to death for murdering two women in October ...

What’s your biggest secret, the one thing you’ve never told anyone? For Steven Golden, it was the truth about what happened ...

Campaigners against the death penalty have long argued that the practice, carried out by shooting an inmate in the heart from ...

Taiwan’s Constitutional Court was hearing petitions filed by roughly three dozen prisoners on death row who argued that the ...

In South Carolina, the governor has the lone ability to grant clemency and reduce a death sentence to life in prison. However ...

Taiwan has carried out 35 executions since a moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in 2010, with the latest occurring ...

Owens is set to be executed by lethal injection in the state's first execution in 13 years. This despite a key witness who ...

State Senator John Whitmire said Brewer was trying to 'make a mockery' of the system with his ridiculous final meal order.