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.

The sustained decline of the death penalty is not explained merely by procedural problems. The death penalty’s biased ...

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

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

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison Friday, saying there were enough ...

The latest lawsuit, filed in Louisiana's Middle District Court, says the state has refused to release the execution protocol ...

His attorneys argued that there is an “unconscionable risk” he’ll be executed because of a neurological disorder rather than ...

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.

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

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