A South Carolina man scheduled to be executed on Jan. 31 by lethal injection is requesting a delay until more information is gathered about the drug that will kill him.

Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...

"What their story shows is that redemption is possible, even in the most horrific of circumstances," Rev. Jeff Hood said of ...

Federal prosecutors alleged Ronaldo Ayala, reputed to be a powerful member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang, conspired with ...

added that the vast majority of inmates on federal death row were grateful for Biden's decision, "which is constitutionally authorized and absolute." The Justice Department's Office of the Pardon ...

Get top local stories in San Diego delivered ... director of the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center, added that the vast majority of inmates on federal death row were grateful for Biden's ...

PHOENIX — Aaron Gunches, an inmate on Arizona’s death row, is telling the state Supreme Court he is ready to die. In a hand-written legal brief, Gunches, who had pleaded guilty to the 2002 ...

At least 63 prisoners on death row will now be re-sentenced by the High Court following the abolition of the death penalty. This momentous shift has been met with widespread acclaim from analysts ...

Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 people on North Carolina's death row to life without parole. Before these commutations, the state had 136 offenders on death row and the Governor’s ...

Marion Bowman Jr.,44, is on death row for the killing of 21-year-old Kandee Martin in 2001. Martin was shot in the head and her body was found in the trunk of a car that had been burned.