A Kentucky lawmaker is hoping his quest to limit the pardon powers of governors in his state has received a jolt of momentum from public attention over the flurry of pardons and commuted sentences ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on ...

Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this ...

A Tennessee death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, the quality of ...

The US carried out a double state killing on Thursday, with two states executing intellectually disabled death row inmates.

Michael Wade Nance, on Georgia's death row for a 1993 murder, argued that lethal injection could cause him severe pain due to ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

Three men on death row have been granted a reprieve of execution by Gov. Mike DeWine, according to a press release from the ...

After years on death row where he found religion and became an artist, Richard Lee Tabler stopped fighting for clemency and ...

Procedures for their executions should meet human rights standards. Death row inmates are informed of their executions on the day they are carried out and then escorted to the scaffold.

This was what Singapore activist Jolovan Wham reportedly said in court on February 3 after being charged with five counts of violating the Public Order Act for participating in five candlelight vigils ...

Until a ministerial panel set up by the Minister of Interior Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, recently, to carry out a “comprehensive investigation into allegation of criminal activities within the ...