NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...

Twenty-four men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and five other people are scheduled to be ...

Federal appellate judges are reconsidering what will happen next for Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma's death row.

Federal appellate judges are reconsidering what will happen next for Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row. They met at a federal courthouse in downtown Oklahoma City on Wednesday ...

Hood is a spiritual adviser who accompanies death row inmates to their executions, praying for them and sharing last words with them as a culmination of a months-, sometimes years-long relationship.

An Oklahoma County judge continued a bond hearing Tuesday for Richard Glossip, who was on death row in Oklahoma for nearly 30 years. GLOSSIP TODAY? WELL, JUSTIN, EVAN, THE JUDGE DIDN’T MAKE A DECISION ...

Payne had been on death row for the killings of a woman and her 2-year-old daughter. In January 2022, Judge Paula Skahan sentenced Payne to concurrent sentences of life with the possibility of ...

Instead, it returned the matter to the trial court in Memphis for further proceedings. Payne had been on death row for the killings of a woman and her 2-year-old daughter.

A Tennessee judge did not have the authority to give Pervis Payne, who was formerly on death row, concurrent sentences of life in prison after ruling that he was intellectually disabled and could ...