Attorneys for Alabama Death Row inmate Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case, ...

Saying Utah's death penalty process is too slow, a lawmaker is pushing past criticism that her plan could end in an ...

Missouri lawmakers are pushing to eliminate the state's death penalty.

California issued a stay of execution for Michael Angelo Morales in 2006, sparking a debate about the ethical implications of ...

Charles “Sonny” Burton said no one was supposed to get hurt during the 1991 AutoZone robbery that landed him on death row, ...

Will Trent season 4 episode 9 followed a race to reopen George Long’s wrongful conviction as a witness confession forced ...

Death penalty opponents ring a bell and proclaim, "not in my name," minutes before the execution of Billy Kearse at Florida ...

Despite not actually pulling the trigger, Burton was convicted of a 1991 murder that took place during an armed robbery and now faces execution as he remains on death row ...

A man convicted of killing a police officer 35 years ago was executed Tuesday, making him Florida’s third execution of the ...

That’s the greatest argument against the death penalty. And it’s one Alabama keeps making with every unjust and torturous ...

Record number of executions in Saudi Arabia and drugs crackdown in Iran offset broader global trend away from capital punishment ...

An Arkansas death row inmate will have a hearing in August to determine if he can end his appeals against the advice of an ...