Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ruled on Friday, part of what he ...

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson at a Baptist church in Arlington. Dobson’s secretary was severely beaten and left for dead but survived the attack.

A South Carolina death row inmate was executed on Friday, marking the third time in four months the state has carried out the death penalty.

Snopes learned critical information missing from online posts and videos after interviewing the attorney who represented the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ...

This new script is exemplified by stories of death row inmates who have been freed by revelations of injustice and of others who were executed despite strong cases for exoneration.

Christopher Lightsey, the man who is on death row for a murder he committed in 1993 in Kern County, was resentenced to death ...

The death row inmate was convicted of murder in 2002 and is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection on Friday.

Bowman’s legal team said Friday that he maintains his innocence, while arguing that executing him would be “unconscionable” ...

In 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons denied the state’s request to transfer federal inmate George John Hanson, known as John Fitzgerald Hanson, in his Oklahoma death-sentence case. That decision ...