Hip Hop is rallying behind one of its most revered lyricists as Kurupt, the legendary West Coast emcee and cornerstone of Death Row Records and the Dogg Pound, remains hospitalized after battling ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with the case of an Alabama man who has been on that state’s death row for more than two decades. The question before the justices was how the lower courts ...

>> LOOK AT THIS BEHIND US. THIS IS THE NUMBER OF DEATH PENALTY EXECUTIONS IN OUR COUNTRY SINCE 1977. YOU SEE THE LATE 90'S. THAT WAS THE PEAK. BUT THEN A GRADUAL DECLINE. >> THAT IS UNTIL NOW. THIS UP ...

Florida Supreme Court Justice Gerald Kogan was distraught. The court’s harsh rules compelled him to agree to an impending execution he thought was unjust. He wrote a concurring opinion that was a cry ...

If I had to use one word to describe the ethos of the courtroom last week, it was a simple one — sad. The 80-year-old defendant, a man who’s been on death row for half a century, was slight, slumped ...

Charles "Sonny" Burton, an Alabama man on death row, is scheduled for execution next month. Gov. Kay Ivey officially set the execution window for between midnight Thursday, March 12, and 6 a.m. the ...

An Arkansas death row inmate will have a hearing in August to determine if he can end his appeals against the advice of an attorney and hasten his execution. A judge will hear arguments in Faulkner ...