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

At his state of the state address Sunday in Austin, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott laid out his legislative priorities. They range ...

The fate of a Canadian who has been on death row in Montana for the past 42 years has been thrown into more uncertainty as ...

The ACLU of Ohio is pushing back against an expected bill that would ban the death penalty in the state, saying it also ...

WASHINGTON, DC – The Death Penalty Information Center has reported the use of the death penalty in the United States remained ...

Ohio lawmakers plan to introduce a bill that would end the death penalty and prohibit state funding for abortions and ...

Marion Bowman has decided not to seek clemency from South Carolina’s governor, guaranteeing he will face the death chamber ...

Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking the first execution in South ...

In Lincoln, battling bills related to Nebraska's death penalty were heard in front of the Judiciary Committee.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the day before his scheduled ...

Lawmakers held a hearing for two different pieces of legislation that would change the death penalty. LR15CA is a constitutional amendment that would get rid of the death penalty. LB432 is a bill that ...

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...