President-elect Donald Trump wants to expand the federal death penalty and undo the Biden-Harris administration's moratorium ...

Attorneys for death row inmates are asking the state Supreme Court to wait until after New Year’s Day to issue any more death ...

There have been several high-profile challenges to planned executions but many more that never see the light of day. Why is it so difficult for people on death row to have their cases reexamined?

After spending 25 years in prison on death row, Richard Moore's last. meal choice was a classic choice for a man who had ...

This is the latest salvo in a legal battle between committee members and the Texas Attorney General and Governor’s offices.

With his execution looming last Thursday, the 57-year-old Texas death row inmate watched as his attorneys’ legal arguments were rejected in the courts and his pleas for clemency disregarded, as the ...

The Texas Supreme Court is considering whether a legislative subpoena of a death row inmate infringed on the executive branch ...

South Carolina is scheduled to execute its second inmate in just over a month Friday night unless Gov. Henry McMaster steps ...

Robert Roberson was set to be the first person in the U.S. to be executed on a “shaken baby syndrome” diagnosis after getting ...

Moore would be the second inmate executed in ... No one else on South Carolina’s death row started their crime unarmed and with no intention to kill, Moore’s current attorneys say.

Texas elections law says state prison inmates who are appealing their convictions are eligible to register. Many lawyers and ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - Richard Moore died by lethal injection shortly after 6 p.m. Friday, according to people who witnessed the execution. He had been sentenced to death for the 1999 killing of ...