The Indiana Parole Board will hold clemency hearings later this month for death row inmate Roy Lee Ward, whose execution is ...

The status of the death penalty in North Carolina could receive renewed attention after President Trump called for the ...

As a judge considers arguments from prosecutors and defense attorneys over whether delusional beliefs about the legal system ...

CHICAGO (AP) — When the U.S. prisons director visited the penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, this past week, she stopped by the federal death row where Bruce Webster is in a solitary, 12-by-7 foot ...

Local officials abolished capital punishment more than 40 years ago, teeing up yet another political and legal fight ...

Stephen Treiber, 56, was convicted and sentenced to death in the 2001 arson murder of his 2-year-old daughter, Jessica, in Millcreek Township.

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court said Monday that state prisoners may not present new evidence in federal court in support of a claim that their post-conviction counsel in state court was ineffective ...

A federal judge has ordered a new trial for an Alabama death row inmate after tests showed it was another man’s DNA on the ...

Lawyers for a death row inmate are attempting to show that nitrogen hypoxia executions cause unnecessary suffering.

Nearly half of Arkansas’ death-row inmates filed suit on Tuesday in Little Rock to bar the state from executing them with nitrogen gas, with the litigation coming on the same day that the new ...