Elaine* spent the final 20 years of her life writing letters to 25 long-term prisoners in the U.S. prison system. Each of the 24 men and the sole woman ...

Jonathan Monk was sentenced to death for the 2017 murders of Justin Smith, Wendy Shannon, Geoffrey Howe and Veronica Darden.

Officers in North Carolina are searching for answers after a woman was found dead in the woods on March 14. Last Friday, ...

Marcus Mitchell has advocated for access to a high school education for individuals on death row for nearly two decades. Now, ...

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer in South Carolina is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in ...

A woman who has been on death row for 27 years has had her murder conviction quashed - after staggering new information came to light. Brittany Holberg was sentenced to death for the murder of A.B ...

March 12 (UPI) --State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her being sentenced to death, a federal appellate court ...

The highest court in Texas on Tuesday issued a rare stay of execution for David Leonard Wood, who has always denied being the so-called "Desert Killer" and reiterated his innocence in a recent ...

In related news, South Carolina death row prisoner Brad Keith Sigmon was executed by firing squad Friday. This was South Carolina’s first-ever use of that execution method and the first firing ...

Republicans have taken away many of the powers of North Carolina’s governor, but the position still carries the power of life and death. Now, some GOP lawmakers are proposing to ask voters ...