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

Iryna's Law allows convicted individuals to choose between the electric chair, lethal injection, or a firing squad.

A judge in New Mexico halted legal proceedings in a federal death penalty case because the U.S. government shutdown is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

A federal grand jury has indicted a man for fatally stabbing a Ukrainian refugee on a commuter train in Charlotte, North ...

Alabama executed a man Thursday night in an inhumane and cruel manner. They used nitrogen gas to kill Anthony Boyd for the ...

Separated from the general prison population, Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours a day alone in their cells.