George Ryan, who served as Illinois secretary of state, House speaker, lieutenant governor and ultimately governor, is best ...

George Homer Ryan served one term as Illinois governor, his scandal-clouded tenure and subsequent imprisonment on federal ...

Then-new Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they ...

Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed on June 25, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...

Judge Steven Hippler denied a motion on Tuesday from Bryan Kohberger's defense team that asked to remove the death penalty as ...

Richard Gerald Jordan has been on Mississippi's death row since 1977. The state has set an execution date of June 25, saying ...

A man who has served nearly three decades on death row in Louisiana has had his conviction overturned by a judge.

A judge ruled Bryan Kohberger, who is autistic, according to his lawyers, could still be put to death if he is convicted of ...