Rejon Taylor, one of the men on federal death row, has told Newsweek he is "overjoyed and grateful" after his death sentence ...

One of the inmates receiving clemency had challenged his sentence under the groundbreaking Racial Justice Act of 2009, a ...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) on Tuesday commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates to life in prison without the ...

In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of ...

Gov. Roy Cooper announced he would change the death sentences of 15 people to life in prison without parole as one of his ...

Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two ...

Third Additional District and Sessions Court judge Sandhya handed the death sentence to Hitesh Shettigar on December 31 for ...

Countries that retain the death penalty often argue that the public supports it. In Zimbabwe, research helped challenge this ...

A military appeals court has upheld a plea deal for the alleged orchestrators of the 9/11 attacks, allowing them to avoid the ...

A Robeson County man whose been on death for decades after being convicted of killing his stepfather had his sentence ...

The Death Penalty Abolition Act, published in Government Gazette on Tuesday, says courts can no longer deliver a sentence of ...