A North Carolina judge ruled Friday that a Black defendant’s capital trial was undermined by allegations of racial bias ...

Attorneys for the state said they planned to appeal the superior court judge’s ruling to the NC Supreme Court.

This is not in any way lessening due process for those who are convicted and are facing the death penalty,” said Rep. Bruce ...

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, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.

An Oklahoma board has rejected clemency for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion ...