More than 200 Civil rights groups urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to use his powers to commute California's more than 500 death sentences over accusations of its constitutionality and racial discrimination.

Missouri is one of only two states in which judges can unilaterally impose the death penalty when a jury can’t agree on ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.] As far ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill is asking the Louisiana Supreme Court to review five death row post-conviction relief cases and ...