Toforest Johnson has always maintained his innocence, and the DA is unsure of his conviction. But Alabama Attorney General ...

The sustained decline of the death penalty is not explained merely by procedural problems. The death penalty’s biased ...

After nearly three decades maintaining his innocence on Oklahoma’s death row, Richard Glossip this week now has the ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison Friday, saying there were enough ...

The latest lawsuit, filed in Louisiana's Middle District Court, says the state has refused to release the execution protocol ...

Prosecutors' errors violated the constitutional rights of Richard Glossip when he was tried and convicted of murder, so he ...

A death row inmate in Oklahoma who has been scheduled for execution nine separate times and been fed three “last meals” has ...

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall was highly critical of Gov. Kay Ivey’s decision Friday to commute an Alabama inmate’s ...

As human rights organizations report that at least 10 prisoners have been recenty executed by Iran, a sociologist warned that ...

Melly could be sentenced to death by a non-unanimous jury — a practice with deep roots in Jim Crow — if convicted in a double ...

The public defender’s office says detectives’ account indicates the victim and 13-year-old defendant were in a confrontation ...