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 ...

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

Supporters of Demetrius Frazier, a Michigan prisoner facing execution in Alabama, are asking Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to ...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A ...

North Carolina is still feeling the adverse impact of the mandatory death penalty prosecution law, despite its repeal. | ...

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.

Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...

Ironically, as this country gets closer to abolishing death as a punishment, that progress does not bode well for the inmates ...

Oklahoma's only female death row inmate, Brenda Andrew, 61, could get another chance in court due to "sex-shaming" during her ...