Jimmie "Chris" Duncan was released from the Ouachita Parish Correctional Center after spending 27 years on death row for a murder conviction that was vacated due to doubts about the evidence used to convict him.

David Carpenter, in his 90s, was the oldest inmate on San Quentin's death row before it was dismantled and the condemned men transferred to other prisons. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) By age 46, Bob Williams had spent more than half his life in ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who witnessed an execution here. HOUSTON, Texas — For Yancy ...

After his best friend and four other fellow death row inmates have been put to death in less than a year, a South Carolina inmate wants to become his own attorney which would likely mean his own execution in weeks or months.A federal judge has ordered a 45 ...

As he stepped out of his prison cell, Rudy Medrano couldn’t figure out what to do with his hands. Cross them in front of his chest? Dangle them awkwardly by his side? During the nearly two decades he’d lived on Texas death row, he had never walked ...