Joe John, a former North Carolina appeals court judge, state crime lab director and state House member, has died at age 85.

Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to die by lethal injection next week want his execution halted so they can get more ...

Though Trump is unable to put the commuted inmates back on death row, he did ask the attorney general in the order to “take ...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from a historic ruling in the case of a woman on death row for murder.

The lawyers formally incorporated the SPLC in 1971, and civil rights activist Julian Bond was named the first president. Dees ...