When Brenda Andrew was on trial for murder in 2004 in Oklahoma, a prosecutor named Fern Smith turned to the jury and held up ...

While some advocates praise the commutations as a step toward ending capital punishment, others are outraged.

South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate to be put to death since September as the state goes through a ...

Despite receiving more than $1 million in ransom, Iouri Mikhel and his partner murdered five people - including a pregnant ...

Iouri Mikhel was sentenced to death in 2007 after being convicted of a kidnapping-for-ransom scheme in California where he ...

Iouri Mikhel filed a petition seeking to block his sentence from being commuted from death to life imprisonment without ...

As three men challenge their commutations, others brace for imminent prison transfers and the finality of a life sentence ...

I have not seen much press about President Trump's order concerning the death penalty. But several provisions could prove to be quite significant. First, ...

Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis, filed petitions in federal court on Dec. 30, a week after Biden announced he would remove 37 out of 40 federal inmates from death row. The order did not include three ...

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences to life in prison without parole as they seek to appeal their cases ...