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

A North Carolina judge has ruled that racial bias tainted jury selection and sentencing in the trial of a Black inmate who was sentenced to death in 2009 ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state’s suddenly busy death chamber ...

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

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 ...

Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday ...

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.

South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate to be put to death since September as the state goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while ...