Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

DA’s office no longer seeking death penalty against man accused of murdering local Uber driver ...

An Alabama man has been sentenced to death for fatally shooting two people in 2020. Derrick Hightower was sentenced Thursday ...

An Arizona death row prisoner has asked the state’s highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution ...

South Carolina's Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state's next execution after allowing a pause for the Christmas ...

Tennessee says it is ready to resume death row executions in 2025. The Department of Corrections announced it will use a drug for lethal injections.

The beneficiary of the new position is assistant District Attorney Matthew W. Welickovitch who until three years ago was one ...

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On his way out of office, former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of death row inmates, as the Tar Heel State has halted executions amid litigation over the past 20 years.

Iran has pledged to assist in the case of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, who is currently on death row in Yemen. A senior ...