Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan died Friday morning at 91, more than two decades after leaving office for the last time and ...

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

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

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - The district attorney says they plan to appeal the April 23 overturning of Jimmie Duncan’s 1998 murder ...

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

Prosecutors are using comments Karen Read has made in interviews and a documentary series in their murder case against her.

Following a Verite News and ProPublica investigation, a district judge vacated the death sentence of Jimmie Duncan, whose ...

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

James Osgood was condemned to die for the 2010 killing of Tracy Lynn Brown. He is one of only a small number of inmates on U.S. death rows to abandon their legal challenges.

To the victim’s family, I apologize .. I’m not going to ask their forgiveness because I know they can’t give it.” ...

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