Iouri Mikhel filed a petition seeking to block his sentence from being commuted from death to life imprisonment without ...

Proposals to make the Pardon and Parole Board members full-time state employees, institute a death penalty moratorium and mandate automatic expungement are up for consideration this year.

A South Carolina man scheduled to be executed on Jan. 31 by lethal injection is requesting a delay until more information is ...

Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...

President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping execution order on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take all necessary and lawful action” to ensure that states have enough lethal i ...

Aaron Gunches was sentenced to death and he’s ready to die. The state is ready to accommodate him. So, what’s the problem?

President Donald Trump wants to “restore the death penalty” through an executive order he signed earlier this week. “The death penalty is not effective,” ...

A press freedom group representing the Indiana Capital Chronicle has filed a lawsuit in Marion Superior Court against the Indiana Department of Correction, alleging that the state agency violated ...

The Executive Orders are said by Trump critics as a rebuke to the Biden Administration’s decision to commute the 37 of 40 ...

Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson at NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington, just west ...

The two hanging-judges, Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghiseh, were integral parts of a network of criminal clerics at the heart ...

Zimbabwe has recently banned the death penalty. While it should remove an exemption clause, which might allow for capital ...