When it comes to abolishing the death penalty in the U.S., a small but determined band of activists and policymakers are ...

Five death row inmates in the U.S. are expected to be executed in the coming days, potentially bringing the total for the year to 18. The upcoming executions are scheduled for Friday, Tuesday and ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

Family members of the victims sent a letter to DA José Garza, demanding a trial so they can seek the death penalty for Raul ...

On a March evening last year, death penalty lawyers, scholars and trained investigators gathered in an Atlanta hotel room to celebrate Wiggins v. Smith. The 20-year-old Supreme Court decision declared ...

but the two affidavits only showed evidence of what Golden’s attorneys told him in order to “induce him” to accept a plea deal. Death row inmate Freddie Owens received an execution notice on ...

A South Carolina inmate scheduled to be executed Friday is asking Gov. Henry McMaster to spare his life, something no ...

On Sept. 20, Freddie Owens, 46, a death row inmate convicted of murder, armed robbery, use of a firearm in the commission of a violent crime and conspiracy to commit armed robbery, is scheduled to ...

A death row inmate in Missouri who has long claimed his innocence and is scheduled to be executed in less than one week asked the US Supreme Court on Wednesday for a stay of execution, arguing his ...

Henry McMaster to spare his life, something no governor in the state has done since the death penalty was restarted nearly 50 years ago. Freddie Eugene Owens, 46, is set to be the first person to ...