An Arizona death row prisoner asked the state’s highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier than authorities were aiming for, pushing as he had in the ...

South Carolina’s Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state’s next execution after allowing a pause for the Christmas ...

Terry Pitchford was put back on Mississippi's death row after Attorney General Lynn Fitch appealed a federal judge's ruling ...

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On his way out of office, former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of death row inmates, as the Tar Heel State has halted executions amid litigation over the past 20 years.

Following President Joe Biden’s commutations of 37 men sentenced to death, some renewed focus is now on Mississippi’s death ...