One of the inmates receiving clemency had challenged his sentence under the groundbreaking Racial Justice Act of 2009, a ...

Jason Alan Thornburg showed no emotion as the judge read his death sentence aloud. A few jurors, who had decided the ...

Tennessee prison officials say they won't publicly release the the state's latest manual for executing death row inmates ...

Nimisha Priya, an Indian-origin nurse, faces execution in Yemen after accused of murder. Her family seeks blood money ...

Joe Biden used a blunt tool to nullify an entire section of law when he gave clemency to the man who murdered a Columbus ...

Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a top government official said Tuesday, saving the 60 prisoners currently on death ...

Iran has offered to help in Nimisha Priya's case, an Indian nurse on death row in Yemen. Senior Iranian official said, "We ...

In his final day in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday changed the justice resolved through legal prosecutions by taking 15 people off death ...

Prema Kumari urgently seeks global support to save her daughter, Nimisha Priya, a nurse sentenced to death in Yemen with days ...

President Joe Biden’s recent pardon of David Runyon, a man once on death row for his role in a 2007 murder-for-hire plot, has ...

Nimisha Priya, a nurse from Kerala's Palakkad, has been sentenced to death in Yemen for the murder of a Yemeni national. She ...