A California state court judge has refused a death row inmate’s request to block his scheduled execution on Wednesday. Albert Greenwood Brown and another condemned inmate had sued the state over its ...

Samuel L. Smithers' final appeal to halt his execution has reached the nation's highest court, one day after the Florida Supreme Court affirmed his death sentence. Smithers' attorneys filed a petition ...

The impending execution of a man by firing squad in Utah was blocked by the state’s Supreme Court on Friday after his attorneys argued he should be spared because he has dementia. Ralph Leroy Menzies, ...

TALLAHASSEE — A federal appeals court has rejected a request for a stay of execution of Frank Walls, who is scheduled Thursday to become the 19th Florida inmate put to death by lethal injection this ...

Robert Roberson, set to be executed next week for the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter, was granted a stay of execution Thursday, according to The Dallas Morning News. The decision by the Texas ...

Texas' highest criminal court on Thursday blocked Robert Roberson’s execution a week before it was set to take place, sending his case back to trial court. Roberson was convicted of capital murder in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Jasmine North, federal public defender mitigation investigator, left, speaks with Ralph Leroy Menzies during his competency ...