But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...

JAKARTA, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Indonesia has handed over to French authorities a man on death row for drug offences who will start his return to his home country late on Tuesday, the latest in a ...

CALGARY - The fate of a Canadian who has been on death row in Montana for the past 42 years has been thrown into more uncertainty as state legislators try again to remove obstacles to resuming ...

Despite spending 23 years on death row, Bowman has maintained his innocence. Last month, he released a four-page statement asserting he did not kill Martin. Lindsey Vann, Bowman's death penalty ...

Today, 51 women are on death row, compared with more than 2,000 men. But for those women who do face capital sentencing, a particular kind of disadvantage based on their sex can arise: Although ...

The question "What would your death row meal be?" serves as a popular topic for dinner party small talk, and even some podcasts. But it's grounded in a grim tradition. In countries which still ...

A French national held on death row in Indonesia since 2007 for drug offences is returning to France on Tuesday as part of an agreement made between both countries. Serge Atlaoui, 61, was accused ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCIV) — Death row inmate Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old Dorchester County native, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking 2025's first execution in South Carolina.

The president commuted the death sentences of almost all of the men on federal death row, but left out three of the most well-known, including Roof. Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. A death row killer who shot his friend before her bullet-ridden body was found in a scorched car is set to be executed on Friday. In May 2002 ...

Bowman, who has been on death row for more than half his life, was offered a plea deal for a life sentence but went to trial because he said he was not guilty. Friday’s execution will follow the state ...

Bowman, who has been on death row for more than half his life, was offered a plea deal for a life sentence but went to trial because he said he was not guilty. Friday’s execution will follow the ...