JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court has denied the latest appeal by a man who has been on death row for 30 ...

In South Carolina, the governor has the lone ability to grant clemency and reduce a death sentence to life in prison. However ...

A Taiwan court decided on Friday to retain capital punishment, but ruled its application should be "limited to special and ...

Oklahoma plans to execute its third prisoner this year unless Governor Kevin Stitt grants mercy to Emmanuel Littlejohn, who ...

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 ...

Lawmakers in Texas, medical experts and the best-selling novelist John Grisham are pushing to save an autistic death row ...

Freddie Owens is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at 6 p.m. on Friday, despite a codefendant's new claim of ...

In South Carolina, which on Friday will execute its first inmate since 2011, 43 convicted murderers have been executed by the state since the death penalty was reinstated here in 1976. Few death row ...

A jury found Brittany Cook guilty of intentional child abuse resulting in her son's death for not getting help for him for ...

Gov. Jay Inslee closed the death chamber at the Washington State Penitentiary on Wednesday. It’s been 14 years since the last ...

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