Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A ...
Brenda Andrew and her boyfriend, James Pavatt, were convicted of the 2001 murder of her husband, Rob Andrew. The Supreme ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ...
There are some things you should know about the death penalty in the 21st century. First, very few advanced nations execute their own citizens anymore. The countries that do include China, Iran ...
Though Trump is unable to put the commuted inmates back on death row, he did ask the attorney general in the order to “take ...
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster denied clemency for the man set to be executed Friday night for a 2001 Dorchester County ...
State Sen. Terrell McKinney of Omaha has a bill which would abolish the death penalty in Nebraska and replace it with life in ...
Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...
The ACLU brief in Menzies v. Utah Department of Corrections argues that this more expansive protection means that people sentenced to death should not be forced to identify an alternative when ...
A man held on Arkansas's death row after being convicted of a 1993 quadruple murder in Jacksonville died in prison Thursday, ...