Attorney General Liz Murrill is pressing the Louisiana Supreme Court to come up with standards that she hopes will bring to ...

Gudinas, 51, was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, June 24, for the murder of 27-year-old Michelle McGrath in Orlando ...

Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for a woman's murder in 1976.

Sister Camille D’Arienzo “didn’t toe the line. She said what she believed. She is a progressive woman who had a very big ...

More than 200 Civil rights groups urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to use his powers to commute California's more than 500 death ...

A coalition of California and national civil rights leaders called on Governor Gavin Newsom to commute the death sentences of ...

Last year, the high court granted Ruben Gutierrez a reprieve 20 minutes before he was to receive a lethal injection.

California currently has 574 individuals on death row, the most in the nation, while being the most populous U.S. state.

For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman ...

THE CLOCK IS TICKING. Gov. Gavin Newsom still has a year and a half left in office, but advocates are starting their call now for him to commute, or reduce, all death sentences in ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, was sentenced to death in 1976 for killing and kidnapping a mother of two young children that year ...