Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

Florida was one of only three states to both execute someone and put more people on death row in 2024. Florida also has more wrongful convictions than any other state.

The proposal would link capital punishment abolishment with prohibitions on state funding for abortion or physician-assisted ...

Supporters of Demetrius Frazier, a Michigan prisoner facing execution in Alabama, are asking Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to ...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A ...

Ohio lawmakers plan to introduce a bill that would end the death penalty and prohibit state funding for abortions and ...

This new script is exemplified by stories of death row inmates who have been freed by revelations of injustice and of others who were executed despite strong cases for exoneration.

Oklahoma's only female death row inmate, Brenda Andrew, 61, could get another chance in court due to "sex-shaming" during her ...

Iouri Mikhel filed a petition seeking to block his sentence from being commuted from death to life imprisonment without ...

Demetrius Frazier is set to die for the slaying of Pauline Brown, who was shot to death and raped in her apartment more than ...

A Georgia man who raped and murdered a 13-year-old girl in a St. Andrews motel in 2008, will remain on death row. Florida Supreme Court justices issued their ruling ...

The proposal comes nearly seven years after Governor Mike DeWine called for a pause in executions shortly after taking office ...