William Terry Holmes pleaded guilty in federal court to mailing threatening communications to the Mobile County district attorney.

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

The Texas Tribune reported last week that the population of Death Row and the number of executions carried out continues to ...

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

This new script is exemplified by stories of death row inmates who have been freed by revelations of injustice and of others who were executed despite strong cases for exoneration.

Idaho has decided not to seek the death penalty in the case against Kevin Kuintzle, as first reported by KMVT.Kuintzle is ...

People convicted of homicides represented about 56% of the population serving life without parole as of 2024, data shows. But ...

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...

The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The number of new death sentences remained small by historical standards in ...

There are some things you should know about the death penalty in the 21st century. First, very few advanced nations execute their own citizens anymore. The countries that do include China, Iran, Iraq, ...

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The world’s longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government pay him more than US$1.3 million in compensation after his conviction was quashed ...

Lawyers for an Alabama Death Row inmate set to die next week said there was a “simple, straightforward option” to guarantee the inmate doesn’t have excess pain during his nitrogen execution ...