NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 ...

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment, according to Death Penalty Information Center: Georgia, along with ...

A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with a man who was convicted in the 1988 murder of Montgomery County Sheriff’s ...

The death penalty is utilized as a form of criminal punishment in 27 states. This includes California, Pennsylvania, Oregon and Ohio, where governors have currently placed executions on hold.

President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is commuting the death sentences of 37 of 40 men on federal death row. Dylann ...

Oklahoma's only female death row inmate, Brenda Andrew, 61, could get another chance in court due to "sex-shaming" during her trial, per a Tuesday Supreme Court ruling.

An Arizona man on death row filed a handwritten motion to the state’s Supreme Court on New Year’s Eve urging officials to execute him ahead of schedule. Aaron Gunches, 53, who was sentenced to ...

When 29-year-old Christopher Edward Debord of Germantown was convicted of robbing and killing a man, the judge sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is commuting the death sentences of 37 of 40 men on federal death row.. Dylann Roof, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Robert Bowers will be the three left on the ...