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 ...

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

INDIANAPOLIS — A bipartisan group of lawmakers, interdenominational religious leaders and activists are calling for an end to the death penalty in Indiana . House Bill 1030 would repeal the death ...

Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking the first execution in South ...

People convicted of homicides represented about 56% of the population serving life without parole as of 2024, data shows. But ...

South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate to be put to death since September as the state goes through a ...

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

Rejon Taylor told Newsweek that he had received notice he would be transferred to ADX Florence, a "supermax" facility known for its harsh conditions.

Sometimes referred to as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies,” the officially named U.S. Penitentiary Florence Administrative ...

Iouri Mikhel filed a petition seeking to block his sentence from being commuted from death to life imprisonment without ...

While the Trump administration can’t reverse former President Biden’s decision to grant clemency to 37 of the 40 prisoners on ...