After being convicted of murder and placed on North Carolina's death row, Alfred Rivera managed to escape being executed in 1999. He was granted a new trial, where a jury decided evidence proving his ...

We speak with Keith LaMar, an artist, teacher and writer on death row in Ohio. LaMar, who has spent three decades in solitary confinement, was sentenced to death for the murder of five fellow ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Tennessee State Capitol rises atop a hill with a plaza map of Tennessee in the foreground at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State ...

A former death row executioner says he was left with PTSD after witnessing the botched execution of Pedro Medina in which the prisoner took 15 minutes to die. In 1997, Ron McAndrew, 88, had already ...

For the past four months, the story of Briley Piper has occupied a large part of both my reporting and personal life. NCR has now published my three-part series about Piper, a man sentenced to death ...

Four death row inmates could be executed, as part of a move that could end a 65-year pause in military executions. The Army has prepared for the possibility of carrying out executions of the ...