More than 200 Civil rights groups urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to use his powers to commute California's more than 500 death sentences over accusations of its constitutionality and racial discrimination.

The Associated Press reported that Richard Gerald Jordan is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi State ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is seeking the Louisiana Supreme Court to review five death row post-conviction relief cases and develop standards for district courts to use, in order to ...

Historical data from the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) provides a glimpse of how Mississippi carried out the death penalty. Mississippi has the highest ...

Three forthcoming education and vocational training buildings by SHL and DLR Group stand to add new amenities at San Quentin, ...

California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is reportedly investigating the death of death row inmate ...

Death Row Inmate Facing Firing Squad Claims Riflemen For Last Execution of Missing On Purpose to 'Cause Great Pain' Attorneys are challenging how executions in South Carolina have been performed.

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas.

A judge granted a temporary stay of execution for Oklahoma death row inmate John Fitzgerald Hanson ahead of his previously scheduled execution date on Thursday.

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas. Gregory Hunt, 65, was pronounced dead at 6:26 ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas. Gregory Hunt, 65, was pronounced dead ...