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

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

To be eligible for the death penalty in Ohio, the defendant must be at least 18 at the time of the crime and convicted of ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by liberal Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, has dissented in the ...

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

A federal death penalty case for a New Mexico defendant is on hold because of the U.S. government shutdown. A U.S. district ...

South Carolina Opinion Editor Matthew T. Hall recently published a major multimedia project about the state’s prison system.

Wrongful Conviction Case, Supreme Court Compensation Petition: The Supreme Court acquitted three men on death row this year.