Iouri Mikhel filed a petition seeking to block his sentence from being commuted from death to life imprisonment without ...

Iouri Mikhel was sentenced to death in 2007 after being convicted of a kidnapping-for-ransom scheme in California where he ...

The Oklahoma Attorney General is asking the federal government to transfer a death row inmate back into the state's custody for execution in line with a Presidential Executive Order regarding ...

Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...

William Zeigler was convicted in 1976 of murdering four people inside his Winter Garden furniture store on Christmas Eve, 1975.

Just months before his scheduled execution in 2022, the state's request was denied to transfer John Hanson, who murdered a ...

Oklahoma’s top prosecutor is asking the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer an inmate to state custody so that he can be ...

Aaron Castro spoke with 3NEWS about the film & healing after a tragedy that changed his entire family and the lives of those ...

A federal judge has denied a motion by a former Southwest Missouri man who seeks to overturn the commutation of his death sentence by then-President Joe Biden. Shannon Wayne Agofsky, 53, formerly of ...

John Fitzgerald Hanson was to have been executed in 2022 for a fatal shooting. The Biden administration blocked his transfer ...

Academy Awards are just around the corner, and a documentary on a Texas death row prisoner is receiving recognition. Called "I Am Ready, Warden," the Oscar-nominated film deals with convicted murderer ...