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

A Texas appeals court has ordered a new trial for a Jewish man on death row because of antisemitic bias by the judge in his ...

In contrast, Biden has a mixed record on capital punishment. Unlike his predecessor, he has not carried out any federal executions, but, as the Atlantic’s Elizabeth Bruenig explains, “neither has he ...

An order has been given to stay the execution of Thomas Creech, who has been on death row since 1983 for the murders of five ...

A new death warrant ... to death row. But after an appeal, that sentence was reduced to life in prison. Less than 10 years later, however, he was convicted of beating a fellow inmate to death ...

SAN ANTONIO — A Texas appeals court ordered a new trial Wednesday for a Jewish man on death row — who was part ... Halprin, 47, was among the group of inmates known as the “ Texas 7 ...

Four inmates at the Dixon Correctional Institute were indicted on murder charges after another inmate was killed. On Nov. 5, ...

A judge has refused to stop the nation’s third scheduled execution by nitrogen gas that is set to take place in Alabama later this month. U.S. District Judge R. Austin ...

She backed her brother, Iwao Hakamada, the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, through decades of frustrating, at times apparently hopeless, legal wrangling as his mental condition worsened.

The Tokyo High Court on March 13 decided to allow a retrial for an 87-year-old former boxer who spent decades on death row for four murders he insists he did not commit. The decision followed the ...