A South Carolina man convicted of murder who is expected to be executed in early January, has released a four-page letter ...

Like prior lame-duck US presidents, Joe Biden has been racing to complete unfinished business in an attempt to bolster his ...

The president's recent decision to commute the sentences of 37 of the 40 federal death row inmates triggered the wrath of his ...

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 ...

Prison officials Friday paroled a Topekan serving time for crimes linked to a triple murder where he said his only choices ...

At least 23 Congolese soldiers are facing the death penalty or 10 to 20 years in prison following their arraignment for alleged rape, desertion and other crimes amid the fighting in the country’s conf ...

David Ware, for the slaying of a Tulsa police officer. A handful of death-penalty cases are pending, including in ...

The nearly 1,000-day stretch without a new death sentence is Oklahoma’s longest since at least 1974, according to data ...

Japanese death-row inmate Chisako Kakehi, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers​, has ...

The loss of a staff person is difficult, but to lose a family member on Christmas Day at the hands of someone in our custody ...

Activists have called for Biden to commute the sentence of many or all federal death row inmates for some time. More than 130 ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday announced his pick for U.S. ambassador to Panama.Trump named Miami-Dade County ...