Lindsay Sandiford, sentenced to death for drug trafficking, hopes for release under new laws commuting death penalties, with ...

The bill, which has nine sponsors right now, proposes amending the N.C. Constitution to require legislative approval of all clemency granted by the governor.

FILE - This image provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Alabama death row ... commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison Friday, saying there were ...

Alabama has set an execution date for an inmate who dropped his appeals this summer and asked to be put to death.

The official explained that state governors contribute to prison congestion in Nigeria.The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has said that a total of 3,688 inmates are currently on death row across ...

Robin “Rocky” Myers has been on Alabama’s death row for more than 30 years. Then, on February 28, he became the first ...

But while Cooper’s decision to extend clemency to inmates on death row was applauded by anti-death ... input on dozens of other petitions that were not granted.” When his office announced Cooper had ...

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls and ...

Japan carried out its first executions in two years on Dec. 21 by hanging three death row inmates, one of them a ... and Mitsunori Onogawa, 44, were put to death separately at the Tokyo Detention ...

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, court records show.

Less than half of millennial and Gen Z adults support capital punishment. In 2024, 25 death row inmates were executed in nine states. The number of executions each year has remained under 30 for ...