The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday declined to grant a new trial to a man convicted for orchestrating a pair of 20-year-old ...

California's death penalty system has been shown to be racially discriminatory, with Black and Latino defendants up to 8.7 ...

Source: 29 death row inmates resentenced – herald Tanyaradzwa Rusike TWENTY-NINE former death row inmates have been ...

The Indiana Department of Corrections says it does not have records showing the single-day cost of executing two death row ...

The man charged with killing a prominent Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another could face the death penalty, something that ...

Catholic organizations had lobbied Quinn to end the death penalty. The former governor was not previously aware of Prevost’s ...

The journalist recently wrote of her experience being present for an execution and her own family's ties to tragedy in ...

Both state and federal officials are pursuing murder charges against a man they say killed a state lawmaker and her husband.

After all, as the 20th state to ban or suspend capital punishment, Washington remains in the minority. And the state’s highest court did not rule the death penalty illegal in and of itself ...

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine postpones the executions of three inmates, including the killer of a Cleveland police officer.