That’s the default most states with the death penalty use today. A few conduct a new penalty phase. Since Missouri changed its law in 1984, Rice is one of at least 18 people who have been sentenced to ...

A federal judge urged NASCAR and two of its teams, including one owned by retired NBA great Michael Jordan, to settle their ...

I n one of his final acts in office, Gov. Roy Cooper granted clemency to 15 people on death row, forgave two people for their past crimes and made two others immediately eligible for parole.

Charleston, S.C., reflects on 10 years since a racially motivated attack on the historic Emanuel AME church. A white ...

More than 200 law-enforcement agents in Virginia and North Carolina, along with scores of media representatives, converged on the community, now transformed from a sleepy town to a place where ...

Roy Lee Ward was sentenced to death in 2007 for the 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne. He has been on death row ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, was sentenced to death in 1976 for killing and kidnapping a mother of two young children that year ...

A Brunswick County man is facing a felony charge in connection with death threats made against a state senator, the North ...

The fact that the COVID-19 vaccine is not available for newborn babies is shielding a group of prisoners on Georgia's death row from execution. Executions in Georgia were halted during the COVID ...

After five years, a judge ordered public records be released in the death of Forsyth County inmate John Neville. He warned he would die and shouted that he couldn’t breathe.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Latavious Johnson, a 43-year-old death row inmate, died on Friday, June 6, according to the Arkansas Department of Corrections. Johnson was previously serving a life sentence ...