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 ...

Just before they are executed, death row inmates at in North Carolina are strapped to this gurney at Central Prison in ...

Nimisha Priya, on death row in Yemen, clings to hope for a last-minute pardon, with her husband Tomy Thomas appealing for forgiveness. Convicted of murdering her business sponsor, Talal Abdo Mahdi ...

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 ...

reducing the state’s death row population by more than 10%. Cooper, who was barred from seeking a third consecutive four-year term, will give way to fellow Democrat Josh Stein on Wednesday when ...

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 ...

The Government of India is extending all help to Malayali nurse Nimisha Priya, who is on death row at the Central prison in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, the Ministry for External Affairs said on ...

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 ...