A man — who was convicted in Texas of a double homicide and confessed to killing two others — sought penance from the ...

Kamron Peter Rondon's remains were found in January had he had never been reported missing, according to the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office ...

Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermon found race played a major role in the prosecution and sentencing of Hasson Bacote to the death penalty in 2009. Gov. Roy Cooper granted Bacote clemency on Dec. 31, ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

The ruling in the first Racial Justice Act evidentiary hearing in more than a decade will have implications for the death ...

Death row inmates in North Carolina may be resentenced after a judge ruled last week that Hasson Bacote's capital trial was ...

Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial ...

House Judiciary Committee Chairperson Bruce “Firing” Skaug, R-Nampa, may succeed in getting more people executed in the Gem ...

By Kimberlee Hurley In his Executive Order 14164, Trump decried Biden’s commutation of 37 out of 40 death row prisoners’ ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected a death row inmate’s request for information on the most recent execution, which was carried out last week.

South Carolina went 13 years between executions before restarting them last year in part because the state couldn’t obtain drugs for lethal injections. A shield law passed in 2023 keeps private the ...