The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to hear a bid by Alabama officials to pursue the execution of an inmate convicted of a 1997 murder who a lower court found to be intellectually disabled and ...

In today’s episode of The Infographics Show, step inside China’s secretive death row, where prisoners don’t just die… they ...

"There are people whom the (prison) system works for. Wayne is one of those people," his attorney said. Nichols is scheduled ...

The military junta in Burkina Faso has adopted a bill restoring the death penalty nearly a decade after the West African ...

More than two decades ago, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision prohibiting the execution of people with ...

For the first time in the U.S., the Boise Art Museum is displaying the full work of artist Julie Green’s indictment of the ...

The Florida State Attorney’s Office announced Friday that it will seek the death penalty against a man who reportedly cut two ...

Forty-four death row inmates across the U.S. have been executed this year, reaching a level not seen in more than a decade.

Tommy Zeigler, on death row since 1976, may get a new trial after a hearing reviewing DNA evidence and blood spatter analysis ...

The execution will mark the state's first in 2025 and the first movement toward closure for the victims’ families after ...

Starkly different testimony from two experts marked Thursday’s proceedings in the special hearing for a convicted mass ...