Steven Nelson, who is set to be executed today after being sentenced to death for his role in the murder of pastor Clint ...

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 ...

An man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in ...

On Friday, a Johnston County judge found that race played a significant role in the death penalty trial of Hasson Bacote, ...

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

Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...

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

The Racial Justice Act allowed people to challenge their death sentences if they could demonstrate race played a role in ...

Attorneys for the state said they planned to appeal the superior court judge’s ruling to the NC Supreme Court.

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

The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The ...

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