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

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

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

Snopes learned critical information missing from online posts and videos after interviewing the attorney who represented the defendant in the case.

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 ...

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

"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 ...

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

As Idaho student murders suspect Bryan Kohberger's trial approaches, his defense is drawing comparisons to another ...

The Montana House has narrowly voted down a bill that would have changed the laws on lethal injection and could have allowed ...