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Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

An Alabama prison executed a Detroit man Thursday evening after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declined to intervene, ignoring pleas ...

Idaho House Bill 37 aims to make the firing squad the state's primary means of execution as prosecutors prepare to try Bryan ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.

On his way out of the White House, Joe Biden pardoned Gen. Mark Milley, members of the Jan. 6 committee, and Dr. Anthony ...

A Frenchman on death row in Indonesia since 2007 for drug offences left for France on Tuesday, with his lawyer saying he was ...

For years, online users distorted the facts about the role the former HBO TV series played in saving a man from a death-row ...

Death Row inmates protest executions at the prison by refusing to ... The death penalty has been abolished in 23 of the 50 US ...

A South Carolina death row inmate was executed on Friday, marking the third time in four months the state has carried out the death penalty.

Snopes learned critical information missing from online posts and videos after interviewing the attorney who represented the ...

This new script is exemplified by stories of death row inmates who have been freed by revelations of injustice and of others who were executed despite strong cases for exoneration.