Arizona has set an execution date for a convicted killer on death row, marking the state's return to the death penalty after ...

In a 120-page order, Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermons also ruled that race was “a significant factor” in other death ...

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order promoting the death penalty as an “essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the most heinous ...

Racial Bias Tainted Jury Selection and Death Sentence for a Black Man in North Carolina, Judge Says SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury ...

RALEIGH, N.C. – In a landmark case, a North Carolina judge ruled today that race played an impermissible role in jury selection for Hasson Bacote, a Black man who challenged his death sentence under ...

Stephan Sterns, the man facing a first-degree murder charge and the death penalty, if convicted, in the disappearance and ...

Stephan Sterns' lawyers file a motion to strike the death penalty, citing a violation of his fundamental right to life.

Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ruled on Friday, part of what ...

Bell County Circuit Court Judge Keith Nagle signed an order striking the death penalty and changing the first count of Erica ...

SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ...

They soon charged Shockley with both crimes, however, and he was only prosecuted for murder. Shockley was convicted and sentenced to death. The night after the jury’s verdict, Shockley’s attorney ...

During his ruling, Judge Wayland Sermons said, "In Johnston County, Black defendants like Mr. Bacote faced a 100 percent chance for receiving the death sentence, while white defendants have a ...