Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25 ...

After finding Cousins, 48, guilty of capital murder last week, a jury in Criminal District Court No. 3 in Tarrant County on ...

Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled to die on May 22, declined to select a method meaning it ...

The top federal prosecutor in Luigi Mangione's case has been recused, according to a letter to Judge Margaret M. Garnett on ...

A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...

Judge Steven Hippler denied a motion on Tuesday from Bryan Kohberger's defense team that asked to remove the death penalty as ...

A man who has served nearly three decades on death row in Louisiana has had his conviction overturned by a judge.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Mississippi death row inmate’s convictions for the slayings of eight people, ...

It's unclear whether federal law was even broken when UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed on a New York street.

Richard Gerald Jordan has been on Mississippi's death row since 1977. The state has set an execution date of June 25, saying ...