A Louisiana man who has spent nearly three decades on death row has had his conviction overturned by a district judge ...

NBC News reported on Sunday that several district attorneys are considering, or have considered, state charges against some ...

A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...

Jimmie Duncan was originally convicted of first-degree murder in 1998 after being accused by prosecutors of raping and drowning his girlfriend’s toddler in a bathtub.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Mississippi death row inmate’s convictions for the slayings of eight people, ...

Chris Duncan’s longtime claims of innocence were boosted by the discrediting of bite mark analysis, and by recent reforms now ...

Clemency hearings for Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie will take place in the coming weeks as the condemned man’s ...

North Carolina lawmakers will discuss a bill Tuesday that would give death row inmates the option to choose between three execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, or firing squad.