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

Rejon Taylor told Newsweek that he had received notice he would be transferred to ADX Florence, a "supermax" facility known ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court cleared 40-year-old Chandrabhan Sanap of all charges, including the rape and murder of a 23-year-old ...

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

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

The world's longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government pay him more than US$1.3 million in ...

"What their story shows is that redemption is possible, even in the most horrific of circumstances," Rev. Jeff Hood said of ...

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

The case was set to go before a jury in February, but on Monday a hearing was scheduled to enter a change of plea.