More than 200 Civil rights groups urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to use his powers to commute California's more than 500 death ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...

A coalition of California and national civil rights leaders called on Governor Gavin Newsom to commute the death sentences of ...

Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Texas death row inmate who is seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible ...

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA ...

So far in 2025, Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed eight death warrants, tying a record for a single year. Here's a look at who's ...

A 79-year-old Mississippi man who had been on death row for nearly 50 years has been executed by lethal injection, one of two ...

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

Mississippi has 37 death row inmates and all but one are men. Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, is the longest-serving death row ...

Nearly five decades after being convicted of murder, a Mississippi man got executed. Can that happen in NJ, PA?

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with a Texas death row inmate in a challenge over whether he had standing to sue a district ...