Convicted of beating and choking the teenager to death nearly five decades ago, Hitchcock offered a brief final statement ...

In a sweeping 34-page ruling issued Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court blocked the imminent execution of James Aren Duckett, ...

A Florida man convicted of beating and choking his 13-year-old step-niece to death nearly 50 years ago is set to be executed Thursday evening. James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, is scheduled to receive a ...

The death row inmate has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution, pointing to a codefendant’s confession in the ...

James Hitchcock has lived under a death sentence for nearly half a century. As of Wednesday, his only reprieve lies with the ...

Melissa Lucio remains on death row in Cameron County, Texas, nearly four years after her scheduled execution was halted and ...

Time is running out in the fight to stop the execution of a convicted killer. James Broadnax, 37, is scheduled to die by ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A group of Death Row exonerees in Tennessee is asking Gov. Bill Lee to stop the execution of a man ...

Death row is serious business, and those who work behind the scenes to administer the lethal injection have a stressful job, but what about back in the day, when people were executed by swinging an ...

Correction: An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of the director of the Catholic Mobilizing Network’s Death Penalty Abolition Program. It is Emmjolee Mendoza Waters. The correct ...