Southwest Ohio's longest-serving resident on the state's Death Row has died, just over 40 years after he was arrested for the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has paved the way for one of Alabama's longest-serving death row inmates to receive a new trial. On ...

Killer Mike, Travis Scott, T.I. and other artists said James Broadnax was sent to death row in Texas based partly on his artistic expression.

Derrick Jamison spent 20 years in prison waiting to die. Now, he has his life back ...

Attorneys for Alabama Death Row inmate Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case, ...

The number of people on Florida's death row is dropping quickly as Gov. Ron DeSantis keeps up the rapid pace of executions he started in 2025. There are currently 250 people on th ...

WASHINGTON – After the Supreme Court in 2002 said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed, prosecutors largely stopped seeking the death penalty for defendants with clear ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — A federal judge has blocked the United States from seeking the death penalty for Shane Meehan, a Terre Haute man accused of killing a Terre Haute police officer. Meehan ...

>> LOOK AT THIS BEHIND US. THIS IS THE NUMBER OF DEATH PENALTY EXECUTIONS IN OUR COUNTRY SINCE 1977. YOU SEE THE LATE 90'S. THAT WAS THE PEAK. BUT THEN A GRADUAL DECLINE. >> THAT IS UNTIL NOW. THIS UP ...

A Missouri House Bill abolishing the death penalty is set to head to committee Monday for a public hearing. Sponsored by Rep. Jim Murphy (R-St. Louis), House Bill 2153 will remove the death penalty as ...

Charles "Sonny" Burton has never killed anyone but was involved in a robbery of a store in Talladega in 1991. He was one of ...