D.A. Mike Segrest sought death for Derrick Hightower. The last death sentence handed down in the circuit was by his father, ...

PHOENIX — Aaron Gunches, an inmate on Arizona’s death row, is telling the state Supreme Court he is ready to die. In a hand-written legal brief, Gunches, who had pleaded guilty to the 2002 first ...

An Alabama man who authorities say killed four people in the span of two days in 2020 has been sentenced to death for two of the killings, court records show.

An Arizona death row prisoner asked the state’s highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier ...

A state autopsy determined that the Black man found hanging in an abandoned Alabama home died by suicide, according to the local sheriff.

South Carolina’s Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state’s next execution after allowing a pause for the Christmas ...

Just days after Tennessee announced it had a new manual for executing death row inmates, the state's top prison officials ...

North Carolina had 136 offenders on death row, among the top 5 largest death rows in the U.S. Gov. Roy Cooper's office said ...

Since September, the bell has traveled to Alabama and now to Indiana to be tolled by people who oppose the death penalty. The Indiana Abolition Coalition held a vigil of its own at 10 p.m. Tuesday.

Because if Biden’s federal death row commutations had been based on principle—the principle that killing people, even people ...