An Arizona death row prisoner asked the state’s highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier than authorities were aiming for, pushing as he had in the ...

South Carolina’s Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state’s next execution after allowing a pause for the Christmas ...

Terry Pitchford was put back on Mississippi's death row after Attorney General Lynn Fitch appealed a federal judge's ruling giving him a new trial.

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On his way out of office, former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of death row inmates, as the Tar Heel State has halted executions amid litigation over the past 20 years.

Following President Joe Biden’s commutations of 37 men sentenced to death, some renewed focus is now on Mississippi’s death ...

To say that it was an interesting year is to say that the Earth rotates around the sun, something that isn’t as slam dunk as it would appear.

Days earlier, just before Christmas, outgoing President Joe Biden commuted the executions of 37 prisoners, responding to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Just days after Tennessee announced it had a new manual for executing death row inmates, the state's ...

Joe Biden used a blunt tool to nullify an entire section of law when he gave clemency to the man who murdered a Columbus ...

NC Governor Roy Cooper has commuted the death sentence of an alleged Satan worshipper who killed to 'get in good graces' with ...

Tarrant County now leads Dallas County in the number of people awaiting execution, according to state prison data and court ...