Bacote spent 15 years on death row before former Governor Roy Cooper commuted his sentence to life without parole in December ...

An appeals court signaled it will override a military judge’s ruling that the agreements avoiding the death penalty were ...

Corey Smith, the John Doe Gang leader during the ’90s in Miami’s Liberty City, has been fighting in state and federal courts ...

An Oklahoma board has rejected clemency for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion ...

Steven Nelson was convicted of the murder of Clint Dobson, the pastor of the NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, ...

The death penalty is being considered for a man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and taking his daughters to Mexico.

The decision was a blow to prosecutors pursuing the longest-running death-penalty case in the military commission system.

Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking the first execution in South ...

People convicted of homicides represented about 56% of the population serving life without parole as of 2024, data shows. But ...

When Brenda Andrew was on trial for murder in 2004 in Oklahoma, a prosecutor named Fern Smith turned to the jury and held up ...

While some advocates praise the commutations as a step toward ending capital punishment, others are outraged.

A new short documentary explores the life of death-row prisoner John Henry Ramirez before he was executed in 2022. “I Am ...