Taylor Parker, accused of killing Reagan Hancock, was denied her final meal after Texas stopped offering special last meals ...

A Lake County judge on Monday rejected a request by death row inmate James Duckett to hold a court hearing to review the procedures and results of recent DNA testing in the decades-long case of an ...

The Florida Supreme Court has rejected a death row inmate’s latest attempt to overturn his conviction, ruling Thursday that ...

After 29 years, nine execution dates and three last meals, former death row inmate Richard Glossip is out on bond Thursday awaiting retrial after his previous conviction in the murder-for-hire plot of ...

The Supreme Court divided 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joining the three liberal justices in the majority.

The request comes days after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Jeffrey Weisheit’s case, ending years of state and ...

In a rare ruling for a condemned prisoner, the justices would not let Alabama use a contested method of execution. By Adam Liptak Adam Liptak is the chief legal correspondent and host of The Docket.

"These individuals are asking that their death penalties be converted to life sentences, and we do not believe that that is ...

The Supreme Court on Monday morning added one new case to its argument docket for the 2026-27 term, granting another case ...

Condemned prisoners on California's death row are partly filling their time by watching pornography and engaging in lewd conversations using taxpayer-funded tablets as the state continues its shift ...

Who are the women on death row in the U.S.? How many women are on death row? From Taylor Parker to Kimberly Cargill, some ...

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with a Black death row inmate from Mississippi, ruling that racial bias impacted the makeup of ...