Advocacy groups are pressuring Biden to fulfill a campaign promise and prevent President-elect Trump from initiating another ...

WASHINGTON — House Democrats and anti-death penalty advocates pressed Wednesday for President Joe Biden to save the lives of ...

Opponents of the death penalty are bracing for Donald Trump’s return to the White House, fearing it will herald a new round ...

The state parole board denied parole for Susan Smith, a mother convicted of murdering her two young sons three decades ago in ...

It's been almost 10 years since a white supremacist was welcomed into a South Carolina church and opened ... sentences of all 40 men on federal death row. (The last woman on federal death row ...

Smith has spent 30 years in prison for murdering her two young sons by driving them into a lake, in a case that drew ...

Currently, Zimbabwe has 62 inmates on death row, according to official figures. In response to growing calls for abolition, legal think-tank Veritas has proposed a model law for the retrial of all ...

Grayson’s execution began just after 6 p.m. at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, AL, when the curtains ...

Melissa Lucio, the death row inmate who was convicted in her daughter's death, spoke out exclusively to ABC News since a ...

The family of Melissa Lucio expressed hope that the death row inmate would be freed after a judge concluded that Lucio is ...

The Texas Supreme Court has cleared the way for Robert Roberson's execution to be rescheduled a month after he narrowly ...