The state attorney's office will seek the death penalty for David Barber, who is charged with kidnapping and murdering a ...

In March, South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon, who was sentenced to death for killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a ...

Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed on June 25, the state Supreme Court ruled ...

Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled.

George Ryan, who served as Illinois secretary of state, Illinoia House speaker, lieutenant governor and ultimately governor, ...

Stephen Stanko, who killed two people in the Myrtle Beach area and sparked a nationwide manhunt in 2005 before his capture, ...

By: Casey Smith Indiana Capital Chronicle For The Republic INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie expressed ...

The man scheduled for execution this month in Tennessee has declined to choose an execution method, which is what stopped ...

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 ...

Oklahoma Death Row inmate John Hanson will seek clemency before the State Pardon and Parole Board, with Attorney ...

Under Governor Gavin Newsom's administration, California has shifted its death row policy, transferring condemned individuals ...