A California state court judge has refused a death row inmate’s request to block his scheduled execution on Wednesday. Albert Greenwood Brown and another condemned inmate had sued the state over its ...

SACRAMENTO — California’s oldest condemned inmate asked a federal judge late Wednesday to block his execution next week, saying it would be cruel and unusual because of his age and health problems.

Texas' highest criminal court has stayed the execution of Robert Roberson, a death row inmate who was—for the second time in two years—less than a week away from becoming the first person in the ...

TALLAHASSEE — A federal appeals court has rejected a request for a stay of execution of Frank Walls, who is scheduled Thursday to become the 19th Florida inmate put to death by lethal injection this ...

The Alabama Attorney General's Office has asked a federal judge to reject Alabama Death Row inmate Christopher Brooks' request to delay his scheduled execution next month. The execution would be the ...