Family members and others are arguing for clemency in the death penalty case of Tremane Wood, the Oklahoma City man convicted ...

After three executions in less than a year — ending a nearly 15-year pause in Indiana’s use of capital punishment — it’s not ...

An Alabama man on death row asked Gov. Kay Ivey to meet with him "before an innocent man is executed," as he seeks to halt ...

The state’s Court of Criminal Appeals earlier this month ordered a lower court to examine whether its findings in a Dallas ...

Nikko Jenkins' attorneys argued the killer may be ineligible for the death penalty due to intellectual disability. A Douglas ...

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More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

Ohio passed a law in 2021 that exempted people with mental illnesses from being executed. Nine inmates have been removed from ...

Ohio's death penalty law is in limbo. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: the status quo isn't working.

Convicted triple murderer Byron Black was executed by lethal injection on August 5 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution ...

Kwame Ajamu spent 28 years in prison – three on death row – for a Cleveland murder he didn't commit. He's now pushing for ...

An attorney for a recently executed Tennessee inmate says an electrocardiogram showed “sustained cardiac activity” nearly two ...