There are currently 53 people on federal death row: 23 Black men, 21 White men, seven Latino men, one Asian man and one White woman, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

15 Times Black Men Escaped Being Killed On Death Row. Exonerations from death row sentences are more common than we'd like to believe. By. Kalyn Womack. Published. June 2, 2024.

A Black man who spent more than a quarter-century on death row in the 1992 killing of a White woman has been released from a Mississippi prison after a judge dismissed the murder charge against him.

A Black man on death row in North Carolina is requesting a review of his case in a Hail Mary attempt at arguing that the jury that found him guilty was riddled with racial bias. Though the state ...

John William King was put on death row for chaining James Byrd Jr. to the back of a truck and dragging his body for nearly 3 miles Latest U.S.

John William King, who is white and an avowed racist, was put on death row for chaining James Byrd Jr. to the back of a truck and dragging his body for nearly 3 miles.

Since the death penalty was reinstated here in 1976, nearly three-quarters of the people Harris County courts sent to death row were persons of color—and more than half were Black.

Eddie Lee Howard was wrongfully sentenced to death in 1994. Now, after decades of fighting, he has been exonerated. Howard, who is Black, was sentenced to death in 1994, after being wrongfully ...

Many of the men I know on death row work hard to repair the harm they caused. I have seen courageous truth-telling, humble listening, estranged relationships restored, and hearts transformed.

A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

There are currently 53 people on federal death row: 23 Black men, 21 White men, seven Latino men, one Asian man and one White woman, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.