Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...
Outgoing North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on Tuesday announced 15 commutations of the death penalty to life in prison ...
Wife of murder victim Jon Johnson, Karen Johnson, hugs jury member Fred Young on May 12, 2010, outside the Sacramento ...
The man accused of the shooting deaths of two people in Bloomfield, Neb. in early 2024 could still face the death penalty ...
A man accused of murdering two people in a Northeast Nebraska town could still get the death penalty after the latest ruling ...
The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.
The death penalty remains on the table for the man accused of fatally shooting two men at a Bloomfield bowling alley last ...
Two men who were among the 37 federal inmates on death row whose sentences were commuted by President Biden are rejecting clemency.
Two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden have ...
Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa approved a law that will end capital ...
Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Tuesday that he reviewed 89 clemency petitions from death row inmates and granted 15 of them.
An Arizona death row inmate called on the state Supreme Court to skip legal formalities and carry out his death sentence ...