The concept of a "last meal" on death row is widely known, but the final words uttered by condemned individuals are often far more revealing and unsettling. History records a chilling collection of ...

A Tennessee death row inmate used his last words to apologize to the people he harmed before he was executed nearly four decades after he raped and murdered a “gentle, sweet, and innocent” college ...

A death row inmate in Oklahoma was preparing for his scheduled execution Thursday when Gov. Kevin Sitt spared his life. The governor announced his decision to commute Tremane Wood's sentence from ...

Across the country, dozens of organizations connect people on the outside with death row inmates through pen pal programs.

Stacey Ian Humphreys, who sits on death row for the murder of two Cobb County real estate agents, can’t pause his execution over a pandemic-era memo that has shielded some capital inmates, a federal ...

A Louisiana man who spent nearly 30 years on death row walked out of prison Wednesday after a judge overturned his conviction and granted him bail. Jimmie Duncan, now in his 60s, was sentenced to ...