Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like many 80-year-olds, Dominick Occhicone doesn't sleep through the night. His hearing is shot and his vision is failing, along ...

Jeffery Lee’s supporters urged Alabama to “choose life” after he mentored other death row inmates through a Christian nonprofit. The Supreme Court on Thursday, June 11, prevented Alabama from ...

The Supreme Court on Monday sided with a death row inmate in Florida who was blocked from challenging his sentence even though a lower court acknowledged a key witness lied on stand, marking the third ...

The inmates living on death row are acutely aware of the escalation, advocates said, and have started to recognize patterns indicating when a new death warrant may be served – such as hearing a ...

Eight death row inmates in Idaho will soon face death in a brand new, top-of-the-line firing squad chamber — and state officials are looking for volunteers to fire the rifles. According to ...

There are three women on Arizona’s death row, and they got there the usual way. Wendi Andriano beat her terminally ill husband to death. Shawna Forde formed an anti-immigrant militia, then staged a ...

At 80 years old, Florida death row inmate Dominick Occhicone has a heap of health issues: heart trouble, poor kidney function, an enlarged prostate, arthritis, and degenerative disc disease, according ...

Three men convicted of murder in Stark County are currently on death row. Ohio's governor has placed a moratorium on executions, citing a lack of lethal injection drugs. Two of the three inmates have ...

Harold Gene Lucas is scheduled for execution nearly 50 years after his conviction, setting a new record for time on Florida's death row. The lengthy appeals process for death sentences is designed to ...