The inmate's attorneys say he shouldn’t be in the state’s prison system at all, despite admitting guilt to slaying a woman in ...

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

Capital punishment is one of the oldest forms of justice in history, and has fluctuated drastically in popularity over the ...

The SC Supreme Court has denied a death row inmate’s petition, clearing the way for a third execution. Nasa astronaut trapped ...

LA Mayor Karen Bass declined to answer wildfire questions from the UK's Sky News during an airport confrontation on her ...

John Henry Ramirez was executed in Texas in 2022 after being convicted of murder in the 2004 death of 46-year-old Pablo ...

At issue is the belief by the two inmates – both of whom maintain their innocence – that Biden's commutation puts them at a ...

A Texas death penalty case is explore in the Oscar-contending short documentary 'I Am Ready, Warden,' directed by Smriti ...

A Japanese death-row inmate, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers, has died in a detention center at age 78, officials said on Friday. Chisako Kakehi was ...

Mr Trump was responding to President Joe Biden's decision to commute the sentences of almost all federal inmates on death row - whom Mr Trump called "37 of the worst killers in our country".

A former federal prosecutor in the case that sent a man to death row says it is difficult to see a “remorseless murderer” be relieved of his sentence following President Biden’s decision on ...

President Biden's recent move to commute the sentences of 37 of 40 federal inmates on death row has been met with praise by some and criticism by others, who say it's unclear why the president ...