Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was given the lethal injection for killing 28-year-old Reverend Clint Dobson at NorthPointe ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned to death for the 2011 killing of Reverend Clint Dobson, 28, who was beaten, strangled and ...

Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson maintained that he unknowingly participated in the violent church robbery but didn’t harm anyone. His execution was the state’s first for 2025.

The president commuted the death sentences of almost all of the men on federal death row, but left out three of the most well-known, including Roof. Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop ...

Death row populations in the United States have declined to historic lows. The Death Penalty Policy Project reviewed 50 years of data and found that U.S. death rows shrank more last year than any ...

On Friday, Jan. 31, the state of South Carolina executed Marion Bowman by lethal injection for the 2001 shooting death of ...

Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Crabb said the men loaded up with firearms and ... once in his six years in office, in 2021, to death row inmate Julius Jones, commuting his sentence to life ...

Ironically, as this country gets closer to abolishing death as a punishment, that progress does not bode well for the inmates ...