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

A Kentucky lawmaker is hoping his quest to limit the pardon powers of governors in his state has received a jolt of momentum from public attention over the flurry of pardons and commuted sentences ...

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 ...

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.

Demetrius Terrence Frazier broke into the window of Brown's apartment on Nov. 27, 1991, before demanding money and raping her at gunpoint.

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

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

A legal decision handed down in Johnston County could have big impacts for more than 100 prisoners currently on death row in North Carolina. A judge ruled race played a role in the case of Hasson ...