Both inmates asked for the U.S. Court in the Southern District of Indiana — which encompasses Terre Haute, where most federal death row inmates are held — to issue emergency orders blocking the ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Attorneys for an Indiana death row inmate have asked the Indiana Supreme Court to stay his execution scheduled for Dec 18. Joseph Corcoran’s attorneys argued in a filing ...

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

Death row populations in the United States have declined to historic lows. The Death Penalty Policy Project reviewed 50 years of data and found that U.S. death rows shrank more last year than any ...

Before that, the law was broadly applied by DOC and former Gov. Eric Holcomb’s office to shield details about how the state ...

Texas inmate Cesar Hernandez details the execution day for Ramiro Gonzales in an essay for the Prison Journalism Project.