The state’s Court of Criminal Appeals earlier this month ordered a lower court to examine whether its findings in a Dallas ...

As Missouri awaited Gov. Mike Kehoe’s decision on whether to halt the execution of death row inmate Lance Shockley, students at Saint Louis University joined Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty, ...

Tremane participated in a robbery gone wrong, during which his older brother, Zjaiton (“Jake”) Wood, killed a man named ...

Christa Pike, convicted of a 1995 murder in Tennessee, has become the state’s only woman on death row. Nearly thirty years ...

Kwame Ajamu spent 28 years in prison – three on death row – for a Cleveland murder he didn't commit. He's now pushing for ...

Ohio's death penalty law is in limbo. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: the status quo isn't working.

Richard Djerf's execution is the second this year in Arizona and one of several this week across the country. FLORENCE, Ariz.

In his final days, Djerf said he still believed in the punishment but said it wasn't meant for everyone. A lot of the men he ...

The final meal of a convicted killer, who tortured four members of the same family before killing them in 1993, has been ...

Shortly after 10:30 a.m. Friday, the state of Arizona executed its second death row prisoner under the administration of ...

Mayes named Djerf as the next inmate to be executed by lethal injection in May of this year. The Arizona Supreme Court issued a warrant of execution on August 19 and set the execution for October 17.

Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell called Oct. 17 "a day of final justice" for the victims of Richard Djerf, and also ...