Human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith has revealed that his client, Nicholas Lee Ingram, was denied the request hours ...

President Joe Biden has made no visible progress toward his campaign promise of working to end the federal death penalty.

Richard Moore made the most of his last supper after controversially being sentenced to death for the murder of a shop clerk.

The Texas Supreme Court has halted the scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the U.S. put to ...

Lawmakers in the state then revoked the right for all death row prisoner's to request a final meal after inmate Lawrence ...

Joseph Johnson was the last person put to death by electrocution ... As of Wednesday, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was ...

With his execution looming last Thursday, the 57-year-old Texas death row inmate watched as his attorneys’ legal arguments were rejected in the courts and his pleas for clemency disregarded, as the ...

Over the last two ... single year, 10 people out of the 59 put to death terminated legal proceedings so that they could speed up their date with death. Those who believe death row inmates should ...

South Carolina carried out the execution of Richard Moore on Friday evening, according to the state, a day after ... with death row inmates given the choice. More than 1,600 people have been ...

A professional human rights lawyer opened up about his friendship with a murderer who was executed back in 1995 ...

South Carolina has put Richard Moore to death by lethal injection for the fatal shooting of a store clerk in Spartanburg.

Texas elections law says state prison inmates who are appealing their convictions are eligible to register. Many lawyers and ...