Toforest Johnson has always maintained his innocence, and the DA is unsure of his conviction. But Alabama Attorney General ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison Friday, saying there were enough ...

The sustained decline of the death penalty is not explained merely by procedural problems. The death penalty’s biased ...

After nearly three decades maintaining his innocence on Oklahoma’s death row, Richard Glossip this week now has the ...

The latest lawsuit, filed in Louisiana's Middle District Court, says the state has refused to release the execution protocol ...

Prosecutors' errors violated the constitutional rights of Richard Glossip when he was tried and convicted of murder, so he ...

A death row inmate in Oklahoma who has been scheduled for execution nine separate times and been fed three “last meals” has ...

Should he get reelected as a senator, former top cop turned Sen. Bato dela Rosa will refile his bill seeking to impose the ...

Those who had been pushing for that clemency are also shocked the governor granted the first death sentence commutation in Alabama this century. Abraham Bonowitz with the group, Death Penalty Action.

Melly could be sentenced to death by a non-unanimous jury — a practice with deep roots in Jim Crow — if convicted in a double ...

As the governor and others try to fulfill promises that the state will resume executing those awaiting the death penalty, ...