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

More than 2 years after Tennessee abruptly halted the execution of inmate Oscar Smith, the state has announced a new lethal injection method ...

Two San Fernando Valley men, who were sentenced to death over a decade ago for killing five people, have had their sentences ...

After Joe Biden commuted 37 death sentences, advocates call on Gavin Newsom to do the same for 605 California death row inmates.

President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 men on federal death row. The majority of them are held in Terre Haute ...

President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of all but three of the 40 people on federal death row, citing his ...

The move leaves only a handful of high-profile killers who acted out of hate or terrorism facing the federal death penalty -- for ...

Dan has covered major breaking stories such as mass shootings and wildfires in California, and overseen teams that covered George Santos and the Gilgo Beach serial killings. A native of Colorado ...

Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion Thursday night to block death row inmate Robert Roberson from ... that it would be no trouble at all to bring Robert to the Capitol.

By providing relief to those serving disproportionately long sentences and commuting federal death row, he will manifest all of those qualities,” Marc Morial of the National Urban League writes.

"The real 'fear' at play here seems to be that seeing and hearing from Robert will make it clear to the public that an innocent man sits on death row who is ... “We will do all we can to ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Robert Roberson, a Texas man on death row convicted of killing his 2 ... said the legislature has the right to explore all types of information that would be under their ...