Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

The FBI is searching for potential accomplices to Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who was killed by police in a shootout after ramming ...

President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row. More than 2,000 others remain on ...

Wife of murder victim Jon Johnson, Karen Johnson, hugs jury member Fred Young on May 12, 2010, outside the Sacramento ...

Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty Tuesday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved a law that abolishes the death penalty in the southern African state ...

Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...

South Carolina’s Supreme Court scheduled Marion Bowman Jr.’s Jan. 31 execution, amidst legal challenges and a pause for ...

The criminal justice system should not be in the life-taking business.

House Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley is among the left-wing lawmakers praising President Biden's decision to commute 37 ...

Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two decades ago.

Eleven death penalty cases were pending in Oklahoma County District Court when the new district attorney took office. Where ...