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Bill Cosby is devastated by the tragic accidental drowning death of his TV son, Malcolm-Jamal Warner. The two starred alongside one another on The Cosby Show for eight seasons. Cosby handpicked Warner ...

A district court judge set a new execution date for Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson Wednesday morning.

Florida will execute its eighth death row inmate this year, with the execution of Michael Bernard Bell by lethal injection on Tuesday, July 15. Bell is set to be executed for the 1993 revenge ...

Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 execution.

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with a man who was convicted in the 1988 murder of Montgomery County Sheriff’s Deputy Isaiah Harris.

A man on death row for decades in the 1987 strangulation of a 16-year-old girl in Waco is set for a court hearing this month on appellate claims that have gone unaddressed for four years.

Indiana attorneys have sent a request to the Indiana Supreme Court on Friday to announce the date for death row inmate 52-year-old Roy Lee Ward.

Richard Jordan, the longest-serving and oldest person on Mississippi's death row, was executed on June 25 for the 1976 murder and kidnapping of Edwina Marter.

Barbour remains on Alabama’s death row. But now, new DNA testing points to someone else — a man who’s already in prison for an unrelated murder. Yet there is no cinematic rush to release ...

As the 10th anniversary of a murder that shocked Southwest Florida approaches, the focus turns to Mark Sievers, who is on death row for orchestrating the killing of his wife, Dr. Teresa Sievers.

Justices side with Texas death row inmate seeking DNA test to avoid execution A 6-3 Supreme Court decision gives the inmate a potential path to have evidence tested to prove he was not responsible ...