A recent NC Newsline Opinion Commentary by Dannel Malloy, the former governor of Connecticut and now Chancellor of the ...

A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

For nearly four decades, David Leonard Wood has languished on Texas Death Row, convicted of the brutal murders of six women and girls in El Paso — despite a glaring absence of DNA evidence ...

Richard Jordan has been on Mississippi's death row for 47 years. He is now asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case.

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.

In a brief filed Wednesday, 10 former Alabama prosecutors signed on asking a Jefferson County judge to grant a new trial in the 1995 case.

The U.S. Supreme Court decision late last month to overturn Richard Glossip’s death sentence from 2004 has been met with notable public ...

The father of Shahzadi Khan, a woman from Uttar Pradesh's Banda, who was executed in the UAE last month, said it was an ...

As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...

Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last ...

An Indian woman on death row in the UAE for the alleged murder of a four-month-old child had been executed on February 15, ...