If two more executions proceed as planned before the end of June, the same number will have taken place in the first half of ...

President Donald Trump's administration backed Alabama's appeal in the case. At issue in Smith's case is whether and how courts may consider the cumulative effect of multiple intelligence quotient (IQ ...

Donald Smith is led into a Duval County courtroom for the start of his evidentiary hearing Tuesday, arguing he had ineffective counsel in his conviction and death sentence in the 2013 abduction ...

President-elect Donald Trump refused to wish federal death-row inmates granted clemency by President Biden a merry Christmas on Wednesday – telling them to “go to Hell.” ...

Oscar Franklin Smith, execution date May 22; Byron Lewis Black, execution date Aug. 5; Donald Ray Middlebrooks, execution date Sept. 24; Harold Wayne Nichols, execution date Dec. 11 ...

What to know about Biden’s death row commutations, and what happens next. Opponents of capital punishment had urged the president to commute death row sentences before Donald Trump — who ...

WASHINGTON—President Biden, citing moral and policy objections to capital punishment, said he was commuting the death sentences of 37 inmates Monday, a move that prevents President-elect Donald ...

Sweeping clemency for inmates on death row could anger those who feel that capital punishment is warranted for convictions after heinous crimes, such as the killings of nine Black churchgoers in ...