Governor Landry announced that the La. Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented an updated ...

The ruling in the first Racial Justice Act evidentiary hearing in more than a decade will have implications for the death ...

Death row inmates in North Carolina may be resentenced after a judge ruled last week that Hasson Bacote's capital trial was ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial ...

One of Trump’s most despicable day-one executive orders revoked Biden’s moratorium on federal executions, ensured that states ...

Bacote spent 15 years on death row before former Governor Roy Cooper commuted his sentence to life without parole in December ...

An Alabama death row inmate who raped and murdered a woman in 1991 was executed this week using nitrogen gas, making him the ...

In a 120-page order, Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermons also ruled that race was “a significant factor” in other death ...

A North Carolina judge ruled Friday that a Black defendant’s capital trial was undermined by allegations of racial bias ...