States are turning to older and newer methods amid lethal-injection drug shortages, while public opinion on capital ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey granted executive clemency to a death row inmate, commuting his sentence to life in prison after officials raised concerns about the validity of his conviction.

The Board voted 2-3 against clemency, clearing the way for Pavatt’s November 12 execution by lethal injection at Oklahoma ...

A death row inmate on Wednesday told the Pardon and Parole Board he was guilty of falling in love, but not murder.

For nearly three decades, the threat of execution has hung over Toforest Johnson's family. Now, that threat has lifted under ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, for the first in his two-term administration, withdrew the death warrant of an inmate who had been ...

A hearing Wednesday for ex-airman James Pavatt did not go in his favor. He is scheduled to be executed Nov. 12, at the age of ...

She took a Lipscomb class only being offered in a prison that semester and emerged with a B and a new best friend — who was ...

The overturned murder conviction of Richard Glossip, who will soon be retried, demonstrates why several measures are needed to help protect against due process violations caused by prosecutors ...

It’s 59 years since Ronald Ryan was hanged at Melbourne’s Pentridge Prison – the last execution carried out in Australia.

When I wrote editorials for this newspaper in the 1980s, the paper had a long-standing policy in opposition to the death penalty. We did not crusade or rail against capital punishment at every turn, ...