Authorities identified the victim killed in a shooting that happened Thursday night in Huntsville. Huntsville Police say they ...

Because Gretchen Sween had less than three months to save her client’s life, she couldn’t take a single day away from her desk to drive to the prison to meet him. She instead digested books’ worth of ...

Steven Nelson is on death row for murdering a pastor, but Christians are split on who gets the final say—God or the court?

The story of capital punishment through the eyes of the people whose lives have been shaped by it… In November 2000, a ...

Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 people on North Carolina's death row to life without parole. Before these commutations, the state had 136 offenders on death row and the Governor’s ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Gov. Roy Cooper announced Tuesday -- his last day in office -- that he has commuted the sentences of 15 people on death row. He also granted two other commutations and two ...

Oklahoma’s death row is dwindling with each execution. No court in the state has imposed a death sentence since May 13, 2022, when a Tulsa County judge followed a jury’s recommendation and ...

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 ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion which made it possible for death row inmate Robert Roberson not to be allowed to testify.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Huntsville Police have new surveillance footage of a man they say is a person of interest in the shooting death of a woman on Christmas Day. According to the Huntsville ...