Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Tuesday that he reviewed 89 clemency petitions from death row inmates and granted 15 of them.

An Arizona death row prisoner asked the state’s highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier than authorities were aiming for, pushing as he had in the past to have his ...

An Arizona death row prisoner asked the state’s highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier than authorities were aiming for, pushing as he had in the past to have his ...

DA’s office no longer seeking death penalty against man accused of murdering local Uber driver ...

South Carolina's Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state's next execution after allowing a pause for the Christmas ...

An Alabama man has been sentenced to death for fatally shooting two people in 2020. Derrick Hightower was sentenced Thursday ...

President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 out of 40 of the prisoners on federal death row in response to the lobbying ...

Daniel Callihan is in custody in Louisiana, facing charges of kidnapping resulting in death and transportation of a minor ...

Jake Wagner agreed to life in prison when he pleaded guilty to his role in the murders of seven Rhoden family members and Hannah Gilley and that's what he got. He pleaded guilty in exchange for the ...

A New York judge has ordered President-elect Trump’s criminal sentencing for Jan. 10, rejecting his demand that his hush ...