Following President Joe Biden’s commutations of 37 men sentenced to death, some renewed focus is now on Mississippi’s death row. According to the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC), 35 ...

JACKSON – Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch has renewed her efforts to have the state’s highest court to set an ...

Before Biden’s December commutations, Mississippi’s ratio of prisoners on death row was more than six times higher than the federal system. The current makeup of death row inmates is 60% Black ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied certiorari review for a Mississippi death row inmate. James Cobb Hutto III was convicted in ...

The Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit that tracks capital punishment information, lists inmates ... in Mississippi. There are currently 35 people on the state's death row, according ...

Sen. Juan Barnett, the committee’s chairman, said the prison is unsafe for staff and inmates after years of underfunding and neglect.

I see this bill as being less problematic with appeals in the courts,” said Rep. Bruce Skaug, R-Nampa, who proposed the ...

US killer Gary Carl Simmons gobbled on a huge feast totalling up to nearly 30,000 calories for his final meal on death row ...

The lawyers formally incorporated the SPLC in 1971, and civil rights activist Julian Bond was named the first president. Dees and Levin began seeking nationwide support for their work. People from ...