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

Even after DNA testing showed he wasn’t the suspect who killed the three women in the Boyd family, it still took years for Sherwood Brown to get his release from custody.

A federal judge rejected a Georgia death row inmate's request to be executed by firing squad because he claims that lethal injection could cause him excruciating pain. Michael Wade Nance ...

A convicted murderer and rapist was executed by nitrogen gas on Thursday — 14 years after he was transferred to Alabama while serving a life sentence in Michigan for a separate murder. Demetrius ...

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...

Michael Wade Nance, on Georgia's death row for a 1993 murder, argued that lethal injection could cause him severe pain due to his medical history and proposed a firing squad as an alternative.

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.

Indonesia and France signed an agreement Friday for the transfer of a Frenchman who has languished on death row since 2007 for alleged drug offences. "What we signed today is an agreement between ...

LOVE Island All Stars' Tina Stinnes has broken down in tears during a tense row with Scott Thomas. Tina, 29, came to blows with Scott, 36, and stormed off following the biggest row to rock this ...

A Florida man convicted of killing a husband and wife at a remote farm in an attack witnessed by the couple’s toddler was put to death Thursday in the state’s first execution of the year.

Nine states have put more inmates to death. But since the unintentional pause, the death row population has dwindled to 29 currently, compared with 63 in early 2011. About 20 have been taken off ...

Meanwhile, Sims on Monday asked 22nd District Judge Alan Zaunbrecher to set an execution date for Jessie Hoffman, who was sent to death row for the 1996 killing of Mary “Molly” Elliot ...