Vietnam veteran Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi nearly 50 years after being sentenced to death.

L ast week brought new evidence of crippling flaws in America’s death penalty system. The number of people exonerated and freed from death row over the last 50 years reached 200.

Christopher Barbour tried to take back his confession more than 30 years ago. Now, new DNA points to someone else.

A death row inmate’s attorneys are asking the court to reverse a lower court’s decision that declined to decide eligibility ...

Since 2000, at least seven people have been exonerated after courts found serious flaws associated with a theory called "bite ...

Catholic organizations had lobbied Quinn to end the death penalty. The former governor was not previously aware of Prevost’s ...

Robert Roberson's attorneys have filed an objection to the Texas Attorney General's request for an execution date, citing new ...

Death row exonerations – when someone is released after being sentenced – have become more common in the United States. More than 200 people have been freed in the past half-century.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is on track to execute more prisoners than any governor in Florida history. We don’t defend the heinous nature of the crimes that land prisoners on death row, but we take ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that a Memphis judge did not have the authority to give a man formerly on death row ...

A US woman who spent years on death row for murders she did not commit was among two people found dead after a house fire in the Republic of Ireland. Sonia 'Sunny' Jacobs died alongside County Galway ...

Sadness has been expressed after former US death row inmate turned campaigner Sunny Jacobs died following a fire in Ireland. The 77-year-old yoga teacher who was originally from New York was found ...