Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis have filed emergency petitions seeking to block the commutations of their death sentences.

Robert Roberson’s case only scratches the surface of the multitude of faults that permeate this system of death in Texas.

The death penalty is arbitrary, capricious, more expensive than non-capital incarcerations and poisoned by racial bias. The ...

If [Biden] disapproved of the applicable federal law, he should have tried to change it democratically – not swept it aside,” ...

Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

Aaron Gunches asked the Arizona Supreme Court to issue an expedited execution warrant for him more than a decade after he was ...

(The Center Square) – An Arizona Democratic lawmaker is seeking to let voters decide if the death penalty could be legal in 2026 ... who commit heinous crimes should be locked away, and victims ...

Today's guest is Sister Helen Prejean, a Catholic nun famous for her activism against the death penalty. In the early 1980s, Prejean met a prisoner on death row—Elmo Patrick Sonnier—after an ...

The death penalty remains on the table for the man accused of fatally shooting two men at a Bloomfield bowling alley last ...

President Biden pardoned the death sentences of 37 people on death row in federal prisons. These folks will remain in prison without chance of parole. He has been both praised and pilloried for his ...