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

Bowman’s legal team said Friday that he maintains his innocence, while arguing that executing him would be “unconscionable” ...

Dylan L. Mauldin, assistant solicitor general for Alabama, called Frazier’s legal maneuver a tactic to delay his execution ...

The death row inmate was convicted of murder in 2002 and is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection on Friday.

A Branchville man convicted of murder in Dorchester County is scheduled to die Jan. 31 after the court allowed a pause in ...

The lawyers formally incorporated the SPLC in 1971, and civil rights activist Julian Bond was named the first president. Dees ...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from a historic ruling in the case of a woman on death row for murder.

The Craven County Sheriff's Office said John Matthew Nigh was discovered missing from his cell at 4 p.m. Sunday, and that his ...

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

Could death row inmates commuted by Biden be sentenced to death at the state level? Legal experts weigh in as Trump ...