U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced she will direct the DOJ to pursue the death penalty at the state level against the ...
Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.
Steven Lawayne Nelson was executed by lethal injection in the state of Texas on Wednesday for the brutal 2011 killing of the ...
Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...
Shamed Onto Death Row
When Brenda Andrew was on trial for murder in 2004 in Oklahoma, a prosecutor named Fern Smith turned to the jury and held up ...
Steven Lawayne Nelson killed Reverend Clint Dobson in cold blood during a church robbery but wanted a lie detector to prove ...
Petrified wood is one of the most sought-after materials in the world for both its aesthetic value and its scientific value. But in Indonesia, miners who risk their lives to dig it up barely make ...
Higgins Gulch in western South Dakota was where the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office found the body of 19-year-old Allan ...
Ohio lawmakers plan to introduce a bill that would end the death penalty and prohibit state funding for abortions and ...
Death row populations in the United States have declined to historic lows. The Death Penalty Policy Project reviewed 50 years of data and found that U.S. death rows shrank more last year than any ...
Two mass clemency decisions contributed. But more prisoners leave death row after courts overturn their sentences. As a ...
North Carolina is still feeling the adverse impact of the mandatory death penalty prosecution law, despite its repeal. | ...