Marcus Mitchell has advocated for access to a high school education for individuals on death row for nearly two decades. Now, ...

The bill, which has nine sponsors right now, proposes amending the N.C. Constitution to require legislative approval of all ...

Mikal Mahdi, convicted of murdering an Orangeburg police officer, is scheduled to die on April 11; he's among 26 people awaiting execution ...

Brad Sigmon, a convicted double murderer, has been executed by firing squad in South Carolina. It’s a first for the state ...

Attorneys for inmate Mikal Mahdi are asking the state Supreme Court to halt his upcoming execution to consider the influence ...

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.

Brody said he viewed Cooper’s decisions to commute sentences of people on death row to life without parole as “a violation of what the citizens of North Carolina expect of their legislature ...

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer in South Carolina is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in ...

An unidentified death row inmate writes a letter. He’s seated in a common area at Central Prison in Raleigh. Inmates on North Carolina’s death row wear red to signify their status. Ethan Hyman ...

A recent NC Newsline Opinion Commentary by Dannel Malloy, the former governor of Connecticut and now Chancellor of the ...

Mikal Mahdi burned the body of Orangeburg County Deputy James Edward Myers after shooting him 9 times. The death row inmate ...