The Ohio Parole Board recommended Tuesday that a prisoner who has spent 30 years on death row for two murders he says he did ...

The Beacon Journal’s July 19th guest columnist, college professor Rick Feinberg, gives his ivory tower arguments against the death penalty. In offering a contrary position on this issue, born from my ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE – Larry Greene, public information director of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, demonstrates how a curtain is pulled ...

Charles Manson died of natural causes in November 2017 ...

Scott Peterson was convicted in the 2002 murder of his wife Laci Peterson and their unborn child Al Golub-pool/Getty Laci Peterson was eight months pregnant when she was found dead in 2002 Her husband ...

Johnny Morales struggled to find sleep. He dozed off for a few moments, but officers came to his death row cell and woke him a little after midnight. They needed to inventory and box up his belongings ...

Richard Glossip, 63, was released on bond Thursday –– the latest dramatic turn in a nearly three-decade legal saga that had seen the former Oklahoma death row inmate scheduled for execution nine times ...

Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's death row, won't appear in person next week in Knox County when her lawyers challenge the state's lethal injection method. Instead, she'll watch the ...