A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

After the woman spent 27 years on death row for killing an 80-year-old man, the court found that prosecutors failed to reveal ...

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

Johnson has been on death row since 1998 when he was convicted of capital murder for the death of Jefferson County Deputy ...

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

Glenn Ford taught me that every chance for life matters. It was easy to see why: prosecutors told the court Glenn was innocent 30 years after he was wrongly convicted of murder and sent to Death Row.

Thirty-seven years to the day, the state of Texas is set to execute Wood for the killing of six of those victims, whose ...

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

Boiling to death was another penalty approved in 1531, and there are records to show some people boiled for up to two hours before death took them. When a woman was burned, the executioner tied a ...