Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

The death penalty has been withdrawn in the case of a Kentucky mom charged in her daughter’s death. A judge signed an order ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it ...

In a 120-page order, Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermons also ruled that race was “a significant factor” in other death ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky lawmaker is hoping his quest to limit the pardon powers of governors in his state has ...

The state of Alabama executed convicted murderer and rapist Demetrius Frazier on Thursday night after a legal appeal to ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in favor of convicted murderer Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, ordering a lower court to review whether she got a ...

I caught up with Grammy-winning and Death Row Records recording artist October London to discuss his music and new whiskey ...

A new bill filed in the Kentucky legislature would create a fund to compensate people who are wrongly convicted and then ...

Frazier, convicted of the 1991 rape and murder of Pauline Brown in Birmingham, is scheduled to be put to death by nitrogen gas. Frazier was serving a life sentence in Michigan after being convicted of ...

After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ask the governor for ...

Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, has appealed her conviction for years, claiming the evidence presented against her violated her due process rights. The U.S. Court of Appeals for ...