I was one of the religious leaders behind the scenes urging President Joe Biden to commute the sentences of people on federal ...

A death row inmate from Branchville is scheduled to be executed on Jan. 31, according to an order issued Friday by the South Carolina Supreme Court.

South Carolina is beginning to schedule executions again after a pause for the holidays, with Marion Bowman Jr. set to be put to death on Jan. 31.

South Carolina’s Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state’s next execution after allowing a pause for the Christmas ...

A Japanese death-row inmate, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers, has died in a detention center at age 78, officials said on Friday. Chisako Kakehi was ...

Jeff Leach, a member of the Texas House’s Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence, predicted two months ago that Attorney General Ken Paxton would find a way to silence death row inmate Robert ...

Three men remain on federal death row: Robert Bowers, convicted in the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh that left 11 worshippers dead; Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted in the Boston ...

A former federal prosecutor in the case that sent a man to death row says it is difficult to see a “remorseless murderer” be relieved of his sentence following President Biden’s decision on ...

President Biden's recent move to commute the sentences of 37 of 40 federal inmates on death row has been met with praise by some and criticism by others, who say it's unclear why the president ...

President Joe Biden’s announcement that he’s taking 37 people off federal death row resulted in praise from some families and deep disappointment from others. The 37 inmates impacted by the ...