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

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

On Wednesday, Francisco Oropeza waived his rights to a jury trial and to appeal by pleading guilty to capital murder. In ...

Florida was one of only three states to both execute someone and put more people on death row in 2024. Florida also has more wrongful convictions than any other state.

This new script is exemplified by stories of death row inmates who have been freed by revelations of injustice and of others who were executed despite strong cases for exoneration.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the day before his scheduled ...

The world's longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government to pay him more than $1.3 million in compensation after his conviction was quashed, his lawyer said on Thursday.

Marion Bowman Jr. is set to be executed on Friday for the shooting death of Kandee Martin in 2001. Martin's body was found in ...

The United States Supreme Court has denied an application to suspend the execution of a death row inmate one day before his scheduled execution on Friday night.

South Carolina executed death row inmates on Sept. 20 and Nov. 1 and will execute a third on Friday. Deana Lattanzio shares why she prays for them.

The proposal comes nearly seven years after Governor Mike DeWine called for a pause in executions shortly after taking office ...