Some criminal justice advocates argue the bill would increase the odds that innocent people stay in prison or are executed.

A man on Alabama’s death row wants his execution to go forward this week, saying he believes in an “eye for an eye.” “The reason I dropped my appeals is I am guilty of murder,” James ...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized Biden’s decision to commute the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates to life in prison without parole. After his inauguration, Trump ordered ...

[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 ...

Kansas District Court Judge Bill Klapper is no one’s idea of a liberal anti-death penalty activist, having been originally appointed to fill a vacancy on the bench by Gov. Sam Brownback (R ...

A murderer finally apologised for killing a young mum - minutes before he was executed on death row on Wednesday night. Moises Sandoval Mendoza has spent more than 20 years in a state prison in ...

Former death row inmates who had their sentences commuted by former President Joe Biden are suing the Trump administration over its plans to send them to a supermax prison. President Donald Trump ...

But in 1988, he had to break that rule. Willie Darden, on Florida's death row with a murder conviction, wanted Joe in the chamber when he was killed in the electric chair - so he agreed.

(Chris Marshall/Courthouse News) HONOLULU (CN) — A federal jury in Hawaii convicted former death row inmate Isaiah McCoy on multiple counts of sex trafficking following a 12-day trial. The verdict ...