A North Carolina judge has ruled that racial bias tainted jury selection and sentencing in the trial of a Black inmate who ...

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

People convicted of homicides represented about 56% of the population serving life without parole as of 2024, data shows. But ...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A ...

Bacote spent 15 years on death row before former Governor Roy Cooper commuted his sentence to life without parole in December ...

In a 120-page order, Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermons also ruled that race was “a significant factor” in other death ...

Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital ...

Alabama has carried out the nation’s fourth nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was ...

A proposal to give prosecutors the option of seeking the death penalty in child rape cases cleared a state House committee in ...

An Oklahoma board has rejected clemency for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion ...

A Delhi court sentenced Ashish alias Babloo to life imprisonment for the murder of a 25-year-old, deeming it not a 'rarest of ...