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

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

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

For the past several weeks, a major challenge to Kansas’ death penalty has been underway in a Wyandotte County murder case.

Two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden — a ...

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

I agree with them. Biden may not be able to end the federal death penalty, but he can and should ensure that no one currently ...

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

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 ...

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 ...