The Arkansas Supreme Court will hear death row inmate Zachary Holly's appeal next month after he claimed his attorneys failed to present evidence that he was sexually abused as a child, along with ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a lower court ruling that Alabama prosecutors violated Michael Sockwell's constitutional rights by intentionally rejecting Black jurors, paving the way ...

The Arkansas Supreme Court will take up the case of a death row inmate who claims his attorneys erred in failing to present ...

In theory, the death penalty is reserved for “the worst of the worst.” In practice, it is very different. People who are ...

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice in a 1991 murder from execution on Thursday.

An Orange County judge has denied Tommy Zeigler a new trial, ruling new DNA evidence doesn’t prove the 80-year-old is innocent in a 1975 quadruple murder.

Executing someone in Andre Thomas’s condition would be indecent and inhumane.

Texas death row inmate Cedric Ricks, convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend and her 8-year-old son, apologized to a ...