Lewis Powell, Harry Blackmun, and John Paul Stevens allowed the death penalty to return. Then they disavowed it. The Washington Monthly is an independent voice, listened to by insiders and willing to ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 24 in the case of a man on Texas death row who has long tried to obtain postconviction DNA testing on evidence that he says would exonerate him. Rube ...

JASMINE. ELIZABETH, LOUISIANA, HAS NOT HAD AN INMATE ON DEATH ROW EXECUTED IN 15 YEARS. THE INMATE THAT WAS SCHEDULED TO BE PUT TO DEATH NEXT MONTH DIED JUST WEEKS BEFORE HIS EXECUTION DATE.

Brad Sigmon, 67, chose to be killed by bullets, saying he feared the alternatives of the electric chair and lethal injection would risk a slower and more painful death. He was convicted of beating ...

Death by firing squad and medical-aid in dying, taking an oral solution of drugs mixed with apple juice, are alternative execution methods that would be more “humane,” Hoffman’s attorneys said.

Snoop Dogg will also move a bulk of his music catalog to the platform, including recordings under Death Row Records. “I don’t f**k with Spotify anymore. I’m only on Tune.FM,” Snoop said in ...

Richard Glossip, a longtime death row inmate, will get a new trial after the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the prosecutors withheld evidence and provided the jury with faulty testimony from ...

Convicted child-killer Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died in custody Saturday night after spending 30 years on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, attorney Shawn Nolan said in an ...

“Christopher Sepulvado’s death overnight in the prison infirmary is a sad comment on the state of the death penalty in Louisiana.,” Shawn Nolan, an attorney for Sepulvado, said in a statement.

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman, a Louisiana death row inmate scheduled for execution on March 18, are asking a federal judge to halt his execution, arguing that ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.