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

Sanjoy Roy was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Sealdah Additional District and Sessions Court for the rape and murder ...

On December 30, two men filed handwritten, emergency petitions from the death row unit in USP Terre Haute, a federal prison ...

The court’s decision aided and abetted a cover-up of the conditions and treatment of South Carolina prisoners and death row ...

The decision of two death row inmates to turn down clemency sounds unthinkable, but they are not the first to do it ...

He said his son had called him in tears the day that he was sentenced to death. "Dad, they gave us the verdict. Mine is the death penalty ... Mr Ardakani submitted papers to appeal the Supreme ...

Aaron Gunches asked the Arizona Supreme Court to issue an expedited execution warrant for him more than a decade after he was ...

and refused to sign the papers offered with the commutation." Agofsky, initially imprisoned for another murder that occurred when he was 18, according to The Death Penalty Information Center ...

Two death row inmates ... and refused to sign the papers offered with the commutation”. The filing added that commuting his sentence would leave Agofsky in a “position of fundamental ...

according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Agofsky was sentenced to death in 2004 after he was convicted of killing a fellow inmate in prison while serving a sentence for the 1989 robbery ...