Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

new death sentences no longer replenish death-row populations. Executions, too, are happening less often. The number of annual Indiana death sentences peaked in the 1980s. It’s been on the ...

Indiana lawmakers call for an end to the death penalty with House Bill 1030, citing concerns of wrongful convictions and execution of innocent people.

Two mass clemency decisions contributed. But more prisoners leave death row after courts overturn their sentences. As a ...

“So that kind of breaks a little part ... foot (2.5-by-3-meter) cell for 22 to 24 hours a day. As his execution date approaches, he is now under constant video surveillance. Death Row inmates ...

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

Livingston (United States) (AFP) – Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to ... "So that kind of breaks a little part of you every day ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A bipartisan group of lawmakers, interdenominational religious leaders and activists are calling for an end to ...

A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered chilling last words prior to being executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ...