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

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.

Slamming the “utter lackadaisical” investigation by the Uttar Pradesh Police, the Supreme Court has acquitted a man sentenced ...

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 ...

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...

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

The Supreme Court set aside the conviction of an accused (convicted of the death penalty) in a case for allegedly committing the gruesome murder of his six family members, including his ...