The justices' order ends a two-year watch on a petition that death penalty opponents filed directly with the state high court ...
An NBC News analysis of final statements from prisoners on Texas’ death row shows that some convey a readiness to die. Others ...
Tennessee officials on Thursday called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers, who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering three people in 1994, after his ...
A death row inmate was executed despite his cousin confessing to being the true killer. James Broadnax, 37, received a death sentence for the 2008 fatal shootings of two Christian music producers ...
Carruthers was sentenced to death for the 1994 kidnappings and killings of Marcellos Anderson, his mother Delois Anderson, and Frederick Tucker in Memphis, Tennessee.
Jurors are deliberating after a deadlock as they decide whether to sentence Ian Mitcham to death or life in prison for the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oscar Franklin Smith was convicted and sentenced to death for the fatal shooting of his estranged wife, Judith Robirds Smith, and ...
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said Wednesday that his office plans to seek execution warrants for three longtime death row inmates. Prosecutors believe Zane Floyd, 50, Donald Sherman, ...
The execution of Tennessee death row inmate Tony Carruthers was stalled due to medical complications on Thursday.