Asma Zarei, 28, was accused of the premeditated murder of her husband and sentenced to die by hanging in Iran, becoming the ...

The death row inmate has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution, pointing to a codefendant’s confession in the shooting death of two people.

James Broadnax will soon take his last breath. For the last 17 years, the convicted murderer has been on death row, with his execution date—scheduled for April 30—now fast approaching. His punishment ...

An NBC News analysis of final statements from prisoners on Texas’ death row shows that some convey a readiness to die. Others ...

AUSTIN, Texas - The state's highest criminal court will not intervene in a Dallas County death penalty case despite another man claiming responsibility for the 2008 shootings. James Broadnax was ...

James Broadnax, 37, was executed by lethal injection at 6.47pm local time at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas.

A death row inmate has explained why he wanted to live under the constant threat of execution for a murder he did not commit. Juan Roberto Meléndez-Colón was sentenced to death in 1984 for the killing ...

Oklahoma executed a death row inmate Thursday morning. He had been convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her 7-month-old baby in 2007.

The day before her wedding, a 31-year-old woman discussed how she is marrying a man on death row about two weeks before he is set to be executed by lethal injection in Texas. Broadnax was sentenced to ...

After spending 46 years on death row, a man was finally proven innocent and acquitted. Freedom came to the world's longest-serving death row prisoner after more than half a century when a Japanese ...

Tokyo (AFP) – Hideko Hakamada campaigned for almost six decades to get her little brother, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, cleared. But at 92 she refuses to relax, campaigning against ...