Ironically, as this country gets closer to abolishing death as a punishment, that progress does not bode well for the inmates ...

Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...

The inmates, Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis, filed petitions in federal court on December 30, a week after Biden announced he would remove 37 out of 40 federal inmates from death row. The order did ...

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences to life in prison without parole, as they seek to appeal their cases ...

Just days before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office, the Department of Justice has announced its decision to withdraw the federal government’s lethal injection protocol on the ...

Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, was executed using controversial nitrogen gas in the early hours of Friday morning - his ...

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

A federal district court denied a motion from a death row inmate to halt his execution which is set for Friday night.

The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected a death row inmate’s request for information on the most recent execution, which was carried out last week.

A Nevada death row inmate is requesting a court hearing, pursuing what federal public defenders say is his right to the clemency process.

The steady decline in executions in the United States could see a reversal with President Trump seeking the expansion of capital punishment.

A federal court rejected another attempt at halting a South Carolina execution. Marion Bowman Jr. was convicted 24 years ago ...