After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ask the governor for ...

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

Oklahoma's only female death row inmate, Brenda Andrew, 61, could get another chance in court due to "sex-shaming" during her ...

Ohio lawmakers plan to introduce a bill that would end the death penalty and prohibit state funding for abortions and ...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A ...

Supporters of Demetrius Frazier, a Michigan prisoner facing execution in Alabama, are asking Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to ...

"What their story shows is that redemption is possible, even in the most horrific of circumstances," Rev. Jeff Hood said of ...

The proposal would link capital punishment abolishment with prohibitions on state funding for abortion or physician-assisted ...

The case was set to go before a jury in February, but on Monday a hearing was scheduled to enter a change of plea.

Demetrius Frazier is set to die for the slaying of Pauline Brown, who was shot to death and raped in her apartment more than ...

Though Trump is unable to put the commuted inmates back on death row, he did ask the attorney general in the order to “take ...