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

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

Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled.

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

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

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

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Mississippi death row inmate’s convictions for the slayings of eight people, ...

Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie expressed remorse and shed tears as he pleaded Monday for the state’s parole board ...

Benjamin Ritchie, a death row inmate, pleads for clemency for his conviction in murdering a police officer in 2000, with his ...

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

Stephen Stanko, who killed two people in the Myrtle Beach area and sparked a nationwide manhunt in 2005 before his capture, ...

Oklahoma Death Row inmate John Hanson will seek clemency before the State Pardon and Parole Board, with Attorney ...