While the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority is pushing the law rightward, the justices appointed by GOP presidents ...

The last person to face the death penalty in Michigan was executed 87 years ago by the federal government. The 1938 execution ...

Disempowering the Fed just as concerns mount about tariff-driven inflation and surging public debt threatens a perfect ...

James Robertson, a death row inmate from Rock Hill seeking to expedite his execution, should have a hearing before a court ...

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the constitutionality of state laws governing DNA testing. […] ...

John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was pronounced dead at 10:11 a.m. Thursday, June 12, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

Mississippi prisoner Richard Gerald Jordan is hoping for relief from federal courts or clemency from Gov. Tate Reeves to stop execution on June 25.

Richard Jordan's hopes for a preliminary injunction that would stop his execution, at least temporarily, were dashed after a federal judge denied relief.

John Hanson was put to death Thursday for the murder of two people in 1999, years after the Biden administration had halted his execution ...

Mississippi prisoner Richard Jordan is continuing to fight his impending execution, this time filing an appeal to a federal ...

Those executed included Thomas Gudinas, whose mental illness was shaped by his abusive upbringing and neglect, and Richard ...