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 ...
Rejon Taylor, one of the men on federal death row, has told Newsweek he is "overjoyed and grateful" after his death sentence ...
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) on Tuesday commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates to life in prison without the ...
In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of ...
Gov. Roy Cooper announced he would change the death sentences of 15 people to life in prison without parole as one of his ...
Japanese death-row inmate Chisako Kakehi, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers​, has ...
Two days before Christmas, Velda Robinson felt like she was robbed of long-awaited justice when she heard her daughter's ...
Seven people sentenced to death in the Carolinas were among the more than three-dozen federal death row inmates to have their ...
Nimisha Priya, an Indian-origin nurse, faces execution in Yemen after accused of murder. Her family seeks blood money ...
A Robeson County man whose been on death for decades after being convicted of killing his stepfather had his sentence ...