Lawmakers have tried multiple times to change Georgia's strict legal standard to prove that someone has an intellectual ...

Several top donors to Luigi Mangione's legal defense fund are condemning Donald Trump's death penalty executive order.

After nearly three decades maintaining his innocence on Oklahoma’s death row, Richard Glossip this week now has the ...

Toforest Johnson has always maintained his innocence, and the DA is unsure of his conviction. But Alabama Attorney General ...

Convicted murderer George John Hanson is transferred back to Oklahoma from Louisiana for death sentence execution.

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, "from natural causes as a ...

As the governor and others try to fulfill promises that the state will resume executing those awaiting the death penalty, ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison after noting questions about ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. ( South Dakota Searchlight) — The only man on death row in South Dakota wants a federal judge to give him ...

Melly could be sentenced to death by a non-unanimous jury — a practice with deep roots in Jim Crow — if convicted in a double homicide.