The request comes days after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Jeffrey Weisheit’s case, ending years of state and ...

The Florida Supreme Court has rejected a death row inmate’s latest attempt to overturn his conviction, ruling Thursday that ...

A Tennessee attorney representing the state’s only female death row inmate has raised fresh concerns following last week’s ...

After 29 years, nine execution dates and three last meals, former death row inmate Richard Glossip is out on bond Thursday awaiting retrial after his previous conviction in the murder-for-hire plot of ...

James Duckett, a Mascotte police officer convicted nearly 40 years ago of raping and murdering a little girl, has managed to ...

In a rare ruling for a condemned prisoner, the justices would not let Alabama use a contested method of execution. By Adam Liptak Adam Liptak is the chief legal correspondent and host of The Docket.

The Supreme Court divided 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joining the three liberal justices in the majority.

The baby-snatching murderer at the center of Netflix’s latest true-crime sensation looks almost unrecognizable in newly ...

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with a Black death row inmate from Mississippi, ruling that racial bias impacted the makeup of ...

Charles Flores wants to use Texas’ “junk science” law to appeal his conviction, saying it was improperly based on testimony ...

The Supreme Court on Monday morning added one new case to its argument docket for the 2026-27 term, granting another case ...

Clarence Curtis Jordan, who is intellectually disabled and had no legal representation for decades, was resentenced to life ...