A new Colorado bill provides that those who "knowingly" use the wrong "gender identity" on a person's death certificate could ...

Landry’s decision is significant in part because until recently, Louisiana was part of a group I call the death penalty ...

The only woman on Louisiana Death Row, Antionette Frank, could receive execution date after 30 years of incarceration. Read ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on ...

Congolese authorities announced that over 170 prisoners on death row over armed robberies would be executed. A recent video ...

Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.

Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

James D. Ford, who was convicted of murdering a young couple in 1999 in southwest Florida while their toddler looked on, was ...

A man — who was convicted in Texas of a double homicide and confessed to killing two others — sought penance from the ...