The inmate's attorneys say he shouldn’t be in the state’s prison system at all, despite admitting guilt to slaying a woman in ...

Lawyers for an Alabama death row inmate set to be killed in the state's first execution of 2025 are arguing that he actually belongs in the custody of another state.

Demetrius Frazier, a poor Black man on Alabama’s death row, is scheduled to be tortured to death by being forced to breathe ...

An Alabama inmate is asking a federal judge to block his nitrogen gas execution, citing concerns over Eighth Amendment ...

Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked attorney general to help states obtain lethal injection ...

The order is a reminder that Americans live in two different worlds regarding the government’s use of the ultimate punishment ...

The only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, Brenda Andrew, was granted a new hearing by the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday.

There is neither a better time nor occasion than the Jubilee Year to abolish the death penalty in the United States, ...

In an executive order titled "Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety," Trump reversed a Biden-era ...

The president ordered the withdrawal of the country from the Paris climate agreement and took action on immigration policy ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...