Outgoing North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on Tuesday announced 15 commutations of the death penalty to life in prison ...

The nearly 1,000-day stretch without a new death sentence is Oklahoma’s longest since at least 1974, according to data ...

On his final day in office Tuesday, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 people on North Carolina's death ...

David Ware, for the slaying of a Tulsa police officer. A handful of death-penalty cases are pending, including in ...

France has sent Indonesia an official request for the transfer of a French death row inmate who has spent nearly 20 years in prison, an Indonesian minister told AFP on ...

A Japanese death-row inmate, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers, has died in a detention center at age 78, officials said on Friday. Chisako Kakehi was ...

President-elect Donald Trump refused to wish federal death-row inmates granted clemency by President Biden a merry Christmas on Wednesday – telling them to “go to Hell.” “[T]o the 37 most ...

President Joe Biden’s decision to commute sentences of 37 federal death row inmates to life in prison without parole has been condemned by President-elect Donald Trump, who hopes to expand ...

A Texas state lawmaker said Attorney General Ken Paxton has shut down efforts to allow death row inmate Robert Roberson to testify at the Capitol in Austin. Rep. Joe Moody, the Democratic ...