Zimbabwe has voted in favour of a United Nations (UN) resolution calling for the global abolition of the death penalty, further demonstrating the country's ...

Convicted murderer Susan Smith, the South Carolina woman who killed her young sons in 1994, will ask to be let out of prison on parole on November 20.

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

An Alabama man convicted in the 1994 killing of a female hitchhiker has been put to death in the nation's third execution using nitrogen gas ...

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

Country music singer Caleb Kennedy will serve prison time for his role in a 2022 DUI crash that left one man dead. Kennedy, 20, pled guilty on Monday to a felony driving under the influence charge ...

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

There are currently 40 inmates on federal death row and the group includes Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Tree of Life mass ...

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

Across the nation, more than half of the approximately 2,100 prisoners with death sentences are incarcerated in jurisdictions where executions are on hold, according to a Washington Post analysis.

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