The documentary, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Smriti Mundhra for MTV Documentary Films, focuses on the days leading up to Ramirez's execution as he sought forgiveness from his victim’s son.

The president directed the attorney general to take “all appropriate action to seek the overruling” of high court precedents ...

Brenda Andrew was convicted of murder in a 2004 trial where prosecutors presented evidence about her sex life.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered lower courts to review the case of the only woman on Oklahoma's death row over concerns ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a challenge by a death row inmate in Oklahoma who claims prosecutors “sex-shamed” her ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with an Oklahoma woman on death row who argued that extensive evidence about her “sex life ...

Cecile Richards, a national leader for abortion access and women’s rights who led Planned Parenthood for 12 tumultuous years, ...

President Donald Trump signed a sweeping execution order on the death penalty Monday, directing the attorney general to “take all necessary and lawful action” to ensure that ...

A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection. His ...

The United States Department of Justice has announced it is withdrawing the federal government’s lethal injection protocol.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction has rarely been bestowed ... Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 ...

President Joe Biden awards Pope Francis the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, the highest civilian honor in the ...