Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned to death for the 2011 ... He would be the first Texas death row inmate executed since Robert Roberson's 17 October 2024 execution date was delayed in what ...

CATAHOULA PARISH, La. (KALB) – A man whose death sentence was commuted by former President Joe Biden back in December 2024 ...

A Nelson County judge has denied Steve Lawson's second request in 2025 to delay his trial, according to court records.

died Saturday on death row. He was 70. Powers' official cause of death is pending the medical examiner's report, a spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Correction said. He had advanced ...

GREENVILLE — More than two decades after gunning down two law enforcement officers in Abbeville County, prompting a more than 12-hour shootout with police, death row inmate Steven Bixby appeared ...

Iwao Hakamada, wrongfully convicted of murder, spent over four decades on death row before being awarded $1.4 million for his suffering. This payout highlights issues in Japan’s justice system.

Kevin Burns is the pastor of the Church of Life, a congregation for the men on Tennessee's death row. Burns was convicted of felony murder and sentenced to death, but he maintains he was at the ...

She accused Death Row Records, Time Warner, Universal Music Group, and Interscope Records of conspiring to avoid paying her a $107 million judgment a judge in Los Angeles issued in 2005.

The Attorney General's Office has identified 24 death row inmates who have exhausted appeals. Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell has pledged to intervene if the Attorney General's Office ...

Japan has awarded a wrongly convicted man who was on death row for close to half a century compensation of 217 million yen ($1.44m). The legal team for Iwao Hakamada, released last year after his ...

SHREVEPORT, La. – A motion seeking a death warrant for a Shreveport man on death row has been filed in Caddo District Court. District Attorney James Stewart filed the motion Monday asking for an ...

Janai Nelson is president and director-counsel of the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the nation’s premier civil rights law organization advancing racial justice and equality, where she leads its ...