There are 40 federal inmates on death row whose executions were put off under the Biden-Harris administration's moratorium on the death penalty. Here's a look at six whose sentences could be carried ...

South Carolina will not carry out any more executions until at least January, the state Supreme Court ruled in a Thursday ...

Today, I'm responsible for my freedom. I'm responsible for my wife and two children. I serve in my church and minister in prisons. I've been out of prison for 19 years, and not a day goes by that I ...

Margie “Velma” Barfield — nicknamed “Death Row Granny” — wore pink pajamas as she was put to death on Nov. 2, 1984. Barfield ...

The Texas Supreme Court is considering whether a legislative subpoena of a death row inmate infringed on the executive branch ...

Some of Britain's most notorious cases have been tried at London's Old Bailey, including those attracting the death penalty until the punishment was abolished in the 1960s.

After Trump won a second term on Wednesday, the Rev. Sharon Risher sent Biden a letter urging him to take action, including by commuting the sentences of all inmates on federal death row ...

BOISE, Idaho — A federal judge has temporarily halted the planned execution of an Idaho man on death row whose first lethal injection attempt was botched earlier this year. Thomas Eugene Creech ...

SAN ANTONIO — A Texas appeals court ordered a new trial Wednesday for a Jewish man on death row — who was part of a gang of prisoners that fatally shot a police officer in 2000 after escaping ...

Despite allegations of collusion, a judge ruled that the Utah A.G.'s office can continue prosecuting Ralph Menzies' death penalty case.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina executes death row inmate Richard Moore as governor rejects plea to reduce his sentence to life.

Robert W. Boynton, 19, a West Aurora High School graduate, was murdered after his plane was shot down in Germany in 1944.