Studies summarized by the Death Penalty Information Center indicate that the race of a victim plays an important role in ...

For the first time in five years, an inmate has been added to Nebraska's death row bringing the total to 12. Here's ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is again urging state officials to resume executions, arguing that ...

An execution warrant has been signed for James Ernest Hitchcock, the man convicted of the 1976 rape and murder of Cindy ...

Tia Green, one of the victims of Samuel Moreland's 1985 attack, expressed her conflicting emotions in the wake of Moreland's ...

Attorneys for a Shelby County death row inmate are pushing for new DNA testing just weeks before his scheduled execution.

Nearly four years after a quadruple homicide shook the small Northeast Nebraska town of Laurel, the man convicted of the ...

A Texas death row inmate who killed his ex-girlfriend and her 8-year-old son used his final moments before execution Wednesday to apologize to the woman’s surviving son — whom he stabbed 25 times ...

Rafael Andres, 61, is facing the death penalty for beating, stabbing and strangling Yvette Fariñas.

As Gov. Ron DeSantis exits office, one of the legacies he‘ll leave behind is a record-shattering embrace of the death penalty ...