Prosecutors say they follow Ohio's death penalty law. But critics believe political pressure has driven disparities in cases ...

Muhtadi, a 33-year-old accused Hamas-linked terrorist, was arrested in Louisiana earlier this month for allegedly partaking ...

The Ohio Supreme Court heard the appeal of a death row inmate convicted of the 1985 murder of a 12-year-old boy in Trumbull ...

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

Earlier this month, Palm Beach County prosecutors announced that they would be seeking the death penalty against two men ...

Federal prosecutors won’t pursue the death penalty against John Pfeffer, the alleged Bandidos leader accused in a deadly ...

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

An Alabama man on death row asked Gov. Kay Ivey to meet with him "before an innocent man is executed," as he seeks to halt ...

A judge in New Mexico has halted a federal death penalty case, citing the pinch of the U.S. government shutdown and a funding ...

Robert Roberson has been on death row since 2003 but has long maintained his innocence in the death of his 2-year-old ...

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

Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace is also at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison where all male death row prisoners are ...