A pair of death row inmates have turned down the clemency granted to them by President Joe Biden, choosing to take their ...

Amnesty International has expressed grave concern over reports of more than 170 individuals being transferred to Angenga ...

Shannon Wayne Agofsky and Len Davis both filed emergency petitions prevent their death sentences from being commuted to life in prison without parole.

Human rights groups accuse Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of using capital punishment as a tool following nationwide ...

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

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

David Sanders not only wants a judge to overturn his death penalty conviction, but to declare a law unconstitutional. The ...

The FBI is searching for potential accomplices to Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who was killed by police in a shootout after ramming ...

Wife of murder victim Jon Johnson, Karen Johnson, hugs jury member Fred Young on May 12, 2010, outside the Sacramento ...

Countries that retain the death penalty often argue that the public supports it. In Zimbabwe, research helped challenge this narrative.

The recent execution of convicted murderer Joseph Corcoran has sparked a conversation about the death penalty in the state of Indiana. In 2025, lawmakers will decide whether to abolish it.