The Racial Justice Act allowed people to challenge their death sentences if they could demonstrate race played a role in ...

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.

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 ...

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

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced she will direct the DOJ to pursue the death penalty at the state level against the ...

Prosecutors have been given Idaho student murders suspect Bryan Kohberger's medical and mental health records, newly unsealed ...

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

The man accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson gets a free death penalty expert under federal law and will ...

A federal judge in New York on Tuesday appointed a death penalty expert to the defense team of Luigi Mangione, the man ...

A death row inmate tried to say one final word before being executed, after beating and suffocating a pastor to death in ...