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 ...

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences ...

On December 30, two men filed handwritten, emergency petitions from the death row unit in USP Terre Haute, a federal prison ...

Because Gretchen Sween had less than three months to save her client’s life, she couldn’t take a single day away from her desk to drive to the prison to meet him. She instead digested books’ worth of ...

Steven Nelson is on death row for murdering a pastor, but Christians are split on who gets the final say—God or the court?

Just before they are executed, death row inmates at in North Carolina are strapped to this gurney at Central Prison in ...

In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of first-degree murder to life in prison without the possibility of parole on ...

Roy Cooper announced Tuesday -- his last day in office -- that he has commuted the sentences of 15 people on death row. He also granted ... rest of their lives in prison." No executions have ...

More Courtesy of Kelley Henry Taylor is one of the first Death Row inmates to publicly respond to news last Monday that Biden was changing the sentences of the 37 condemned men to life in prison ...

France has sent Indonesia an official request for the transfer of a French death row inmate who has spent nearly 20 years in prison, an Indonesian minister told AFP on Saturday. Indonesia has in ...

Huntsville police are investigating a shooting that happened this morning, leaving one woman dead. Just after 5:30 a.m., officers responded to the 500 block of Webster Drive near Garrison Street ...