An Alabama judge has issued a stay of execution for a convicted killer allegedly diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia while ...

An Alabama state judge has ordered a mental health evaluation to see if a man on death row with a history of mental illness ...

As the Sept. 5 execution date for Ralph Menzies inches closer, attorneys dispute whether claims his competency has ...

A judge has ruled that a death row inmate's heart device must be deactivated when he receives a lethal injection in Tennessee ...

A judge will soon decide whether Ralph Menzies, the death row inmate with dementia sentenced to die by firing squad on Sept.

Attorneys for Ralph Menzies, who is set to be executed Sept. 5, are seeking clemency from the state parole board, citing his ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A judge has ruled that condemned killer Ralph Leroy Menzies is competent to be executed. In a ruling handed down late Friday, 3rd District Court Judge Matthew Bates declared ...

Not long after he arrived on death row, he wanted to drop his appeals after a card-playing buddy never appealed his death sentence for setting a van on fire with his daughter inside outside his ex ...

By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Texas death row inmate who is seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for execution.. The 6 ...

Death row inmate Matthew Johnson is scheduled to be executed Tuesday evening for killing a woman he set on fire during a robbery in 2012 in what will be Texas’ fourth execution this year.

Indiana is set to execute an inmate early Tuesday morning, almost 25 years after he shot and killed Beech Grove Police Department officer William Toney. Top News U.S. News ...