A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with ...

Twenty-one former death row prisoners at the U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute are suing President Donald Trump, Attorney ...

A lawsuit filed on behalf of 21 inmates seeks to prevent them from being transferred to a notorious federal supermax prison ...

George Ryan's corruption case overshadowed a nationally historic move to halt the state’s death penalty and empty its Death ...

Embattled former Illinois Gov. George Ryan has died at age 91. Ryan, who served as Illinois' governor from 1999 to 2003, passed away Friday morning, according to former Illinois house republican ...

They are currently being held at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., where the federal government has long held death row prisoners and where Mr. Trump had 13 prisoners executed during his ...

A Louisiana prosecutor said he will seek the death penalty against a man who brutally killed a Las Vegas woman and her ...

Disaster.” An insider look at mistakes made by the defense team led by a legendary lawyer for Charleston church killer Dylann ...

Death row inmates granted clemency by former President Joe Biden sued the Trump administration on Wednesday for ordering their incarceration under the most “oppressive conditions” available. President ...

Each death penalty case is autho­rized by the DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C., in con­sul­ta­tion with local U.S. Attorney offices, who prosecute the cases.

Roof, 31, is one of three condemned men on federal death row in Terre Haute, Indiana, along with 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Robert Bowers, who shot and killed 11 congregants ...