A man who has served nearly three decades on death row in Louisiana has had his conviction overturned by a judge ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Mississippi death row inmate’s convictions for the slayings of eight people, ...

A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...

NBC News reported on Sunday that several district attorneys are considering, or have considered, state charges against some ...

Chris Duncan’s longtime claims of innocence were boosted by the discrediting of bite mark analysis, and by recent reforms now ...

Federal prosecutors on Thursday submitted notice they intend to seek the death penalty if Luigi Mangione is convicted of ...

Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie's clemency hearings are set for the coming weeks as his legal team fights to delay ...

In a last-minute legal maneuver, attorneys for death row inmate Jeffrey Hutchinson filed a motion Wednesday with the Supreme Court of Florida seeking a stay of his scheduled execution. Hutchinson, who ...

North Carolina lawmakers will discuss a bill Tuesday that would give death row inmates the option to choose between three execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, or firing squad.

In Kansas, Judge Bill Klapper concluded that “The scientific community has found no reliable evidence of the death penalty ...

A Kansas City firefighter-paramedic has died after a patient allegedly stabbed him in an “unfathomable” attack during a ...

This was one of the latest — and likely final — attempts by Kohberger’s attorneys to remove the death penalty as an option.