Attorneys for convicted murderer James Ford have filed legal briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort to ...

The High Court on Monday (10 February) resumed hearings on the death references and appeals in the 2019 murder case of Bangladesh University of Engineering Technology (BUET) student Abrar Fahad. The ...

Questions fly as correctional centre dismisses allegationUntil a ministerial panel set up by the Minister of Interior Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, recently, to carry out a "comprehensive investigation ...

Louisiana has approved a protocol for executions by nitrogen hypoxia, which will allow death sentences to be carried out ...

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented an updated protocol that allows for ...

A man was stabbed to death with a machete by two people in a park following a row, a court has heard. Kyle Marshall, 37, died after being injured during an incident in Wellhead Fields, Bourne, ...

Demetrius Terrence Frazier's final meal was a popular takeaway choice, after spending three decades in prison.

David Duncan, a meticulous retired judge, led an inquest into Arizona's execution protocols -- until it was subverted by politics ...

On Friday, a Johnston County judge found that race played a significant role in the death penalty trial of Hasson Bacote, influencing the makeup of the jury along with the decision of the death ...

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

If you were wrongfully convicted of a crime in Oklahoma and got released today, the state would give you a maximum of ...

Daniel Stroud, now 25, who stabbed 16-year-old Bailey Gwynne through the heart in a corridor at Cults Academy in Aberdeen in ...