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

A teenager branded “evil” and “monstrous” for stabbing to death schoolgirl Elianne Andam in a shopping centre row over a teddy bear has been jailed for life. Hassan Sentamu, 18, was filled with “white ...

Maintaining a system that risks killing the innocent along with the guilty is itself a crime — and one that underscores the ...

That is what Jefferson County, Alabama District Attorney Danny Carr has tried to do in the case of Toforest Johnson, a man ...

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

Johnson has been on death row since 1998 when he was convicted of capital murder for the death of Jefferson County Deputy ...

In a small prison cell in Nigeria, a Christian man waits for a fate he insists he does not deserve. His name is Sunday Jackson, a former student turned farmer in his ear ...

This program is a joint initiative of the education and prisons departments and Paigham-e-Pakistan under which children of ...

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

Nine prisoners have walked free after evidence presented by members of a forensics team turned out to be wrong — yet one man ...

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

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