Unlike other recent commutation hearings, it’s not likely that the state parole board will hear directly from the death row ...

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 ...

Whether a death row inmate should be allowed to fire his attorneys and withdraw his appeals, expediting his execution, will ...

Enacting laws that recognize the reality of permanent incompetency will not fling open the doors of death rows around the ...

A state judge has stayed an upcoming execution in Alabama to evaluate whether the man is too mentally ill to be put to death.The judge temporarily stayed the Au ...

The Utah Board of Pardons and Parole will hold a hearing to determine if death row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies' sentence ...

A judge has ruled that a death row inmate's heart device must be deactivated when he receives a lethal injection in Tennessee Aug. 5.

A commutation hearing will happen for Ralph Menzies. Menzies execution by firing squad is just over five weeks away, on ...

Prosecutors have filed their response to death row inmate Ralph Menzies' request for his sentence to be changed to life ...

Anti-death penalty advocates, including the son of an inmate scheduled to be executed this week, gathered Monday morning at the Tennessee Capitol, urging Gov. Bill Lee to halt the execution of ...

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson is set to be executed on Oct. 16, a judge announced during a hearing on Wednesday. Attorney General Ken Paxton requested the hearing to discuss a new ...