President Joseph R. Biden Jr. commuted dozens of men’s sentences to life without parole, but the Trump administration has ...

Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled.

A third of executions in 2022 were botched or highly problematic, according to a report from the Death Penalty Information ...

and they presented only 15 transcript pages of mitigating evidence at trial—a shockingly brief presentation for a life-or-death decision. Thus, the court was not only deprived of the many facts ...

A new Oklahoma law would send child rapists to death row for their first offense, but not without a reversal from the U.S. Supreme Court.

A man who has witnessed as many as nine death row executions has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Rev. Jeff Hood was ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for four people on death row in 2025. Oscar Franklin Smith's execution May 22 was the first in five years. A judge has temporarily called off one man's ...

A 38-year-old pimp who dodged death row in Delaware was convicted in federal ... his victims by inflicting physical and psychological trauma ; he physically attacked and injured them, verbally ...

A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by ... given the extraordinary abuse and trauma he had already endured." His attorneys also alleged the judge who sentenced Mahdi ...

Hoffman is currently the only death row prisoner with an execution date ... that Holliday had a childhood filled with abuse and trauma, to the extent that he attempted suicide three times ...

running programs focused on trauma. Sarinana still has moments when she misses death row. Last Christmas, she was dealing with a difficult bout of depression. She remembered the games the women ...