The Supreme Court appeared swayed by a Texas death row inmate’s argument he has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws ...

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, "from natural causes as a ...

He died at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, located in the eastern part of the state. Lawyers for ...

Gutierrez was condemned for the 1998 stabbing of Escolastica Harrison at her home in Brownsville, on the state’s southern tip ...

An octogenarian death row inmate scheduled to be Louisiana's first person put to death in 15 years next month has died, ...

A terminally ill man who spent over 30 years on death row in Louisiana for the killing of his stepson has died ...

Louisiana’s oldest death row inmate dies 3 weeks before he was to be state’s first execution in 15 years - “Give me a little ...

The state's highest court upheld a law transferring more control of death penalty cases from local district attorneys to the ...

Sepulvado was sentenced to die for the 1992 murder of his 6-year-old stepson, Wesley Allen Mercer, whom authorities said was ...

An 81-year-old man, who spent 30 years on death row passed away in Louisiana, US, before his scheduled execution date in ...

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died in custody on the night of Feb. 22, his attorney said in an emailed statement.

Tennessee's attorney general has filed notice seeking execution dates for five men on death row. It's another sign the state ...