Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

Days before jury selection was set at the courthouse, the District Attorney’s Office announced they will no longer be going ...

An Arizona death row prisoner has asked the state’s highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution ...

An Alabama man has been sentenced to death for fatally shooting two people in 2020. Derrick Hightower was sentenced Thursday ...

South Carolina’s Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state’s next execution after allowing a pause for the Christmas ...

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On his way out of office, former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of death row inmates, as the Tar Heel State has halted executions amid litigation over the past 20 years.

A Dadeville jury sentences Derek Hightower of Columbus, Georgia, to death for the brutal murders of Willie and Barbara Tidwell on April 17, 2020. This sentence marks ...

Daniel Callihan is in custody in Louisiana, facing charges of kidnapping resulting in death and transportation of a minor ...

Iran has pledged to assist in the case of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, who is currently on death row in Yemen. A senior ...