Civil society experts’ abolitionist view on the death penalty is at odds with the public’s anger and want for retributive ...

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

Frazier was convicted of capital murder for breaking into a Birmingham woman's apartment, stealing cash, raping her at ...

Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital punishment in 1965.

Death Row inmates are given one final request before they die. The Mirror takes a look at the strangest and bizarre prison ...

yet he has already spent more than half of his life on death row. He cannot in good conscience ask for a supposed mercy that ...

Two death row inmates at Karachi Central Jail were pardoned by the relatives of the deceased just 24 hours before their execution, ARY News reported on Wednesday. According to details, both prisoners, ...

Marion Bowman Jr. is a grandfather, a poet and a death row inmate. Prison officials in South Carolina plan to execute Bowman by lethal injection on Friday for the murder of 21-year-old Kandee Martin ...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment ... a nonviolent drug charge for a man who previously served a prison sentence for ...

Notably, this is the second death row prisoner acquitted in the case. In early January 2025, the Kerala High Court acquitted and released Jomon from Viyyur Central Prison in Thrissur. However ...