A Florida man who has spent nearly half a century on death row was executed by lethal injection on Thursday for the murder of ...

First Florida executed James Hitchcock for the 1976 murder of his brother's 13-year-old stepdaughter. Then Texas executed ...

For years, county, state and federal courts have ruled that neither Broadnax's transformation, nor his claims of an unfair ...

Pennsylvania lawmakers are pushing to abolish the death penalty for first-degree murder in Pennsylvania passed a House ...

Texas has executed a death row inmate who fatally stabbed his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son in a fit of rage before he turned the knife on her 12-year-old son, who miraculously survived the attack ...

In 2013, when I had been locked up in solitary confinement for 25 years, I wrote an essay entitled “A Sentence Worse Than ...

The civil lawsuit against the United Klans of America over Michael Donald's murder "was the seminal moment in bringing down ...

Addressing the cameras following reports of spiralling youth violence, including the killing of the 21-year-old former ...

James Hitchcock has lived under a death sentence for nearly half a century. As of Wednesday, his only reprieve lies with the ...

Tony Carruthers is scheduled for execution May 21, but there's now questions about DNA evidence the ACLU says doesn't match ...

The Justice Department is bringing back the use of firing squads and lethal injection using pentobarbital as it seeks to ...