Hanson arrived in Oklahoma to face a likely execution by the state for his murder conviction. The Biden administration previously blocked the move.

Those who had been pushing for that clemency are also shocked the governor granted the first death sentence commutation in Alabama this century. Abraham Bonowitz with the group, Death Penalty Action.

A former federal prison inmate is now in Oklahoma custody as the state seeks to execute him for a 1999 killing in Tulsa.

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in ...

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

Defendants attorneys lodged three motions to bar the death penalty from being imposed. A judge rejected their arguments in ...

International efforts to eradicate the death penalty came into sharp focus at the Human Rights Council on Tuesday, where UN human rights chief Volker Türk decried a substantial increase in global ...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-3 decision to overturn Richard Glossip’s conviction and death sentence highlights concerns over a ...

The Supreme Court on Monday was divided over whether a Texas man on death row has a legal right to sue, known as standing, to ...

BOISE, Idaho -- More than two years after a quadruple homicide devastated Moscow, Idaho, a judge unsealed the transcript of a ...

Jessie Hoffman is scheduled to be the first person Louisiana puts to death using nitrogen gas. “Knowing the day he’s going to ...

Defendants seeking relief from capital punishment typically don’t win at the high court, but Richard Glossip’s case was a ...