Two men accused of homicide in Pennsylvania are asking the state Supreme Court to limit a prosecutor's use of the death ...

More than a dozen inmates in Pennsylvania have been removed from death row this year, leaving the commonwealth with the fewest under a death sentence in nearly a quarter-century. In December ...

5 Pennsylvania death row inmates challenge policy of solitary confinement. The lawsuit says inmates are kept in solitary confinement in a small cell nearly 24 hours a day while they spend their ...

Why Pennsylvania governor’s call to end state’s death penalty may be a game changer by Austin Sarat, opinion contributor - 02/18/23 5:30 PM ET ...

Of the 200 inmates currently on Pennsylvania’s death row, 85 were sentenced to the death penalty before Michael. Thirty-nine of them have been on death row since the 1980s.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced a moratorium on executions in Pennsylvania on Friday. Some details about his action, the reaction and the death penalty: THE GOVERNOR’S ACTION: Wolf said … ...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s prison agency agreed to improve death row conditions under a settlement announced Monday of a federal lawsuit that called the inmates’ living standards degrading ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Daniel Gwynn found himself on death row at 25 after Philadelphia prosecutors said in court that two witnesses had picked him out of a photo array in a fatal arson case.

The state has only executed three inmates since the death penalty was reinstated in the 1970s, and all three had given up on their appeals. Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, has imposed a moratorium on ...

Former Pennsylvania death row inmate freed December 20, 2023 at 4:00 a.m. by The Associated Press ...