Melvin Trotter was sentenced to death for the brutal 1986 murder of Virgie Langford during a convenience store robbery in ...

As Melvin Trotter faces execution today for a 1986 killing in Florida, his attorneys argue his intellectual disability has been long-documented.

An Arkansas death row inmate will have a hearing in August to determine if he can end his appeals against the advice of an ...

The Warner Theatre will present Requiem for an Electric Chair, a powerful one-man play by award-winning Congolese playwright ...

Savannah Guthrie's mom has now spent over two weeks with her abductors, who have since demanded a ransom payment.

Nancy Guthrie was abducted from her home outside Tucson on February 1, prompting a large-scale search involving federal and ...

Charles Flores' death row case is before the U.S. Supreme Court, raising concerns about investigative hypnosis, due process, and the safeguards intended to prevent the execution of innocent people.

"It's like gladiator academy," DA says. At Oklahoma's Allen Gamble Correctional Center, a medium security prison, inmate ...

"From the teaching of Our Lord, we must conclude that the death penalty is inappropriate because it attacks the inviolability and dignity of the human person" ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman he and his brother had met at a bar has become the first person executed in Florida this year. Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elizabeth Vartkessian: ‘Each case I work on could be described as a life that’s fallen through a crack’ - KT Kanazawich for The ...

In terms of highly charged scenarios for a songwriter to tackle, a prisoner who is about to be executed has to rank right up there. Many have tried to get on this wavelength, but not all have pulled ...