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.

Death row inmate Stephen Stanko was executed by lethal injection. He initially chose firing squad but changed his mind after ...

In nearly 350 death penalty cases Maricopa County prosecutors pursued over 20 years, just 13% ended in a death sentence. The ...

The charity reports that 195 US death row prisoners have so far been exonerated completely for their crimes. It further adds that more may have been killed for crimes they “did not commit”.

Arizona, which has 112 prisoners on death row, last carried out three executions in 2022 following a nearly eight-year hiatus brought on by criticism that a 2014 execution was botched and because ...

Stanko will become the sixth death row inmate the state has put to death since September. According to court documents, Stanko began a murder spree on April 8, 2005, ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, 78, is on death row in Mississippi and scheduled for execution on June 25th for a 1976 murder. The state argues Jordan has exhausted his appeals and the Supreme Court lacks ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled on May 1 that a man on death row has exhausted all his legal remedies and set an execution date, yet the U.S. Supreme Court has not responded to a petition to ...