The man scheduled for execution this month in Tennessee has declined to choose an execution method, which is what stopped ...

In March, South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon, who was sentenced to death for killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a ...

The state attorney's office will seek the death penalty for David Barber, who is charged with kidnapping and murdering a ...

Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed on June 25, the state Supreme Court ruled ...

A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...

Under Governor Gavin Newsom's administration, California has shifted its death row policy, transferring condemned individuals ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

George Ryan, who served as Illinois secretary of state, Illinoia House speaker, lieutenant governor and ultimately governor, ...

Death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie seeks clemency for his 2000 crime that killed Beech Grove police officer. State board's decision is non-binding.

A man who has served nearly three decades on death row in Louisiana has had his conviction overturned by a judge.

A judge ruled Bryan Kohberger, who is autistic, according to his lawyers, could still be put to death if he is convicted of ...

Judge Steven Hippler denied a motion on Tuesday from Bryan Kohberger's defense team that asked to remove the death penalty as ...