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?

Authorities say 43 monkeys bred for medical research that escaped a compound in South Carolina have been spotted in the woods ...

The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment. One state has executed by ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appears likely to give Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip at least another day in court in his long quest to throw out his murder conviction and death ...

A federal jury has cleared a former Kentucky detective of a charge that he violated the civil rights of Breonna Taylor’s ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Jury convicts former Kentucky officer of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during deadly raid. Four men have been hit with a maximum cumulative jail sentence of more than ...

Richard Moore was sentenced to death in 2001 by a nearly all-white jury for a robbery gone bad following a trial that lasted ...

Margie “Velma” Barfield — nicknamed “Death Row Granny” — wore pink pajamas as she was put to death on Nov. 2, 1984. Barfield was convicted of murder and had also confessed to fatally poisoning at ...

South Carolina is less than 24 hours away from executing its second death row inmate in 13 years, Richard Moore. The next day, there will be a final push for clemency for Richard Moore's lawyer, ...

They also said it would be unjust to execute someone for what could be considered self-defense and unfair that Moore, who was ...

Over 50,000 people have signed a clemency petition in support of Richard Moore, a South Carolina death row inmate who is set ...

Richard Moore is scheduled to be executed on Nov. 1 unless S.C. Gov. McMaster grants clemency. He's the last Black man on ...