Held inside a notorious prison among some of California's most dangerous felons, the San Quentin Film Festival is not your typical Hollywood affair.

An Alabama death row inmate used his final words to maintain his innocence before being suffocated to death with nitrogen gas ...

Bishops in multiple U.S. states are leading efforts to spare the lives of condemned prisoners facing execution.

Convicted triple murderer Byron Black was executed by lethal injection on August 5 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution ...

An Alabama man convicted of helping to burn a man alive in 1993 over a $200 drug debt was executed by nitrogen gas on ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Anthony Todd Boyd should not be the eight man executed with the controversial method of nitrogen ...

Anthony Boyd was the eighth person executed by nitrogen gas since Alabama began using the method last year. His execution ...

Attorneys are asking a federal judge to block next month’s scheduled execution of a convicted child killer, arguing Florida’s ...

Attorneys are asking a federal judge to block next month’s scheduled execution of a convicted child killer, arguing Florida’s ...

Death row inmate Todd Boyd maintained his innocence before being put to death via nitrogen gas for a grisly 1993 murder.

As Alabama prepared to execute a death row inmate with nitrogen gas, the Supreme Court's three liberal justices wrote a ...

An electrocardiogram monitoring the heart of a Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August showed “sustained ...