Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves will not step in to stop the execution of a man convicted of raping and killing a college ...

Robert Roberson would have been the first person in the country executed for a murder conviction centered around shaken baby syndrome.

An Arkansas death row inmate on Friday requested a competency evaluation to determine if he can waive his remaining appeals ...

The family of Anthony Boyd, an Alabama inmate set to be executed later this month, begged for his life to be spared at a press conference Wednesday morning. “This is not just about me. This is about ...

Thomas Creech is Idaho's longest-serving death row inmate and was given a lethal injection last year, but the execution was ...

Thirty years on from her brutal crime, Christa Pike will go down in history as the first woman to be executed in the state ...

Robert Roberson’s death penalty case has gained national attention for being based on the outdated science of “shaken baby ...

John J. Lennon’s book, written in his twenty-fourth year in prison, provides a bracing reckoning with guilt, remorse, and the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A judge in South Carolina has ruled a death row inmate’s beliefs that most laws are unconstitutional and citizens have an absolute right to defend their property to the death are ...

The case has drawn attention from lawmakers and advocates who question whether Roberson received a fair trial based on the forensic science available at the time of his conviction more than two ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A year after the restart of executions in South Carolina, some Republicans are calling for an expansion that would make more people, including child rapists, eligible for the ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s Democratic governor signed into law on Friday a criminal justice measure that the state’s Republican-controlled legislature approved in response to the stabbing ...