Jeff Landry, a staunch death penalty advocate, made moves to expedite executions after a 15-year pause. Judge Alvin Sharp, ...

Over the last half-century, the political leanings of the Supreme Court, Congress, and the presidency contributed to ...

A man on Alabama’s death row wants his execution to go forward this week. James Osgood told The Associated Press in an ...

In an extraordinary and detailed 126-page declaration tucked into his latest appeal for a new trial, Peterson attempted to ...

Richard Djerf, convicted of killing four in 1995, may be the next death row inmate executed after exhausting all appeals.

Moises Mendoza used his last words to apologize to Rachelle Tolleson's family before he was executed for her 2004 murder ...

Death row inmate Moises Sandoval Mendoza's haunting 10-word plea to victim Rachelle O’Neil Tolleson's family before lethal ...

But don’t expect a raise for teachers this time, according to state Rep. Danny Garrett, a Trussville Republican. Teacher pay ...

Postwar Japan has seen four cases where a death-row inmate with a finalized sentence ... (This article is based on an interview by Izumi Sakurai.) ...

A judge in Arapahoe County has been hearing testimony over the past week about a challenge to one of the convictions of Robert Ray, a former death row inmate in Colorado. Ray is asking the court ...

It really doesn’t take much to end up on death row. And that fact collides head-on with the constitutional amendment that I and other Oklahomans voted for in 2016 to formally protect the death ...