Death row populations in the United States have declined to historic lows. The Death Penalty Policy Project reviewed 50 years of data and found that U.S. death rows shrank more last year than any ...

A Terre Haute man facing drug and gun charges in federal court has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to federal prison.

After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ask the governor for ...

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun suggested Monday he could reverse the previous administration’s unwillingness to disclose how much ...

Two mass clemency decisions contributed. But more prisoners leave death row after courts overturn their sentences. As a ...

South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate to be put to death since September as the state goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while ...

Marion Bowman Jr. was 20 years-old when he shot and killed Kandee Martin in Dorchester County, South Carolina.

yet he has already spent more than half of his life on death row. He cannot in good conscience ask for a supposed mercy that would require him to spend the rest of his life in prison for a crime ...

and there was no designated area for female death row prisoners to be held. So, she was imprisoned at Central Prison in Raleigh, NC, in an area for escape-prone prisoners and those with mental ...

CALGARY - The fate of a Canadian who has been on death row in Montana for the past 42 years has been thrown into more uncertainty as state legislators try again to remove obstacles to resuming ...

About 20 inmates have been taken off death row and received different prison sentences after successful appeals. Others have died of natural causes. The United States Supreme Court on Thursday denied ...

Despite spending 23 years on death row, Bowman has maintained his innocence. Last month, he released a four-page statement asserting he did not kill Martin. Lindsey Vann, Bowman's death penalty ...