Attorneys for James Broadnax are seeking to halt his April 13 execution for murdering two men at a Garland Christian music recording studio. His co-defendant, Demarius Cummings, is now claiming he ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey spared the life of a 75-year-old death row inmate who was set to be executed this week for a killing he did not commit ...

A Nebraska death-row inmate has filed a federal challenge to his conviction and sentence for the 2005 killing of a ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has paved the way for one of Alabama's longest-serving death row inmates to receive a new trial. On Monday, the court declined to review the state's appeal of a lower court ...

Alabama's governor has halted an execution two days before it was to be carried out, citing a punishment gap between the gunman and the man who didn't fire a shot. On Tuesday, Gov. Kay Ivey changed ...

Every year, thousands of prisoners in the U.S. are placed in solitary confinement, where they endure isolation, abuse, and mental suffering. This practice might soon become rarer for some inmates in ...

In theory, the death penalty is reserved for “the worst of the worst.” In practice, it is very different. People who are ...

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice in a 1991 murder from execution on Thursday.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey spared the life of a 75-year-old death row inmate who was set to be executed this week for a killing he did not commit ...

Sister Helen Prejean discussed her decades of advocacy and the new graphic novel adaptation of her best-selling-novel-turned-film "Dead Man Walking." ...

After President Trump urged states to recommit themselves to capital punishment, Florida started to put prisoners to death at rates not seen in the state’s modern history.