George Ryan, who served as Illinois secretary of state, House speaker, lieutenant governor and ultimately governor, is best ...

Then-new Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25.

A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...

A man who has served nearly three decades on death row in Louisiana has had his conviction overturned by a judge.

Richard Gerald Jordan has been on Mississippi's death row since 1977. The state has set an execution date of June 25, saying ...

Judge Steven Hippler denied a motion on Tuesday from Bryan Kohberger's defense team that asked to remove the death penalty as ...

Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan died Friday morning at 91, more than two decades after leaving office for the last time and ...

Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, disgraced by a corruption scandal that landed him in prison yet heralded by some for clearing the state’s death row, has died. He was 91.

A judge ruled Bryan Kohberger, who is autistic, according to his lawyers, could still be put to death if he is convicted of ...