George Ryan, who served as Illinois Secretary of State, House speaker, lieutenant governor and ultimately governor, is best known for declaring a state moratorium on the death penalty in 2000 that led ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan has died at the age of 91, former Illinois House Republican leader Jim ...

Gulf War veteran Jeffrey Hutchinson was executed Thursday evening for the 1998 Florida family massacre. He spent 24 years on ...

Mississippi's Supreme Court has set June 25 as the execution date for Richard Gerald Jordan, the state's longest-serving ...

A man is sentenced to more than three decades in prison after killing four people within a few hours in April of 2020.

Jerone Hunter, 38, who has been on death row for 19 years, is trying to convince a jury to toss his death sentence.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25.

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

Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled to die on May 22, declined to select a method meaning it ...

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