A North Carolina judge ruled Friday that a Black defendant’s capital trial was undermined by allegations of racial bias ...

Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ruled on Friday, part of what he ...

One of Trump’s most despicable day-one executive orders revoked Biden’s moratorium on federal executions, ensured that states ...

An Alabama inmate convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday.

A Kentucky lawmaker is hoping his quest to limit the pardon powers of governors in his state has gotten a jolt of momentum from ex-President Joe Biden. State Sen. Chris ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state’s suddenly busy death chamber ...

Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, was convicted of the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown. Frazier raped and shot her ...

The Idaho Department of Corrections is taking steps to reconfigure a portion of the state's largest prison to prepare to ...

An Alabama death row inmate who raped and murdered a woman in 1991 was executed this week using nitrogen gas, making him the ...

Attorneys for the state said they planned to appeal the superior court judge’s ruling to the NC Supreme Court.

A federal judge in Buffalo has ruled that a hearing will be held later this year to determine whether the 19-year-old Tops shooter, Payton Gendron, should face the death penalty.