Aaron Brian Gunches' execution would mark a resumption of Arizona's use of the death penalty after a two-year pause while it reviewed its procedures.

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

An Alabama man has been sentenced to death for fatally shooting two people in 2020. Derrick Hightower was sentenced Thursday ...

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

A Dadeville jury sentences Derek Hightower of Columbus, Georgia, to death for the brutal murders of Willie and Barbara Tidwell on April 17, 2020. This sentence marks ...

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 ...

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

President Joe Biden’s Monday announcement that he would commute the death sentences of 37 federal inmates should not be seen as an act of mercy for people convicted of awful crimes. It was a ...

OPINION: The nation’s highest court’s recent treatment of capital cases is rife with disregard for systemic racial ...

An annual report put together by a national group that tracks the death penalty says Florida led the nation this year in ...

President Joe Biden announced on Monday that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, ...