Prisoners say the Trump administration is seeking tougher conditions for them as punishment for having their death sentences ...

A man who has served nearly three decades on death row in Louisiana has had his conviction overturned by a judge.

A Louisiana judge this week set aside the first-degree murder conviction and death sentence of Jimmie Chris Duncan, whose ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Mississippi death row inmate’s convictions for the slayings of eight people, ...

Throughout, his opinion is pragmatic rather than ideological; it offers people in death penalty swing states a way forward by emphasizing the fairness of the death penalty process and its costs ...

He also said he doesn’t want opponents of the death penalty protesting under his name. Osgood was condemned to die for the 2010 ... Asked what he would say to young people, Osgood said it ...

Speaking to reporters in the weeks before the execution, Osgood admitted he deserved to die ... The Death Penalty Information Center reported last year that 165 of the 1,650 people executed ...

North Carolina lawmakers will discuss a bill Tuesday that would give death row inmates the option to choose between three execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, or firing squad.

It's the first death penalty case the Department of Justice is tying to President Trump's Day One executive order restoring the executions of people on ... proceed in this way, Mr. Mangione's ...

“It is worth noting that the qualifications of Dr. Hayne were lacking in certain ways to an extent that ... Duncan is among 55 people on death row in Louisiana, though until very recently ...