After the DOJ released a memo to bring back firing squads as a form of capital punishment, Black inmates on death row are ...

Clarence Jordan, a condemned Houston man with a history of mental health issues whose death sentence was vacated, will not ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed sympathetic to a Mississippi man who argues that a district attorney violated the Constitution’s ban on racial discrimination in jury selection. Terry Pitchford is ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is criticizing Gov. Kay Ivey’s decision to commute the death sentence of Charles “Sonny” Burton, a death row inmate who was days away ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of Charles "Sonny" Burton, sparing the 75-year-old inmate from a scheduled execution this week and ending more than three decades on death ...

WHAT BOTH SIDES ARE ARGUING. MARIA. JEAN, WHEN THE STATE ABOLISHED THE DEATH PENALTY BACK IN 2019, THERE WAS A STATUTE THAT SAID THAT THIS DID NOT APPLY TO PREVIOUS CASES, MEANING THAT THE DEATH ...

Several appeals in some of Texas’ highest-profile capital punishment cases are set for 2026 as the state continues to maintain a historically low number of executions. 2025 marked the second year ...

A bill that would clear the way for executions of death row inmates to resume in the commonwealth is headed to Gov. Andy Beshear’s desk after it passed in the Kentucky Senate on April 1. Senate Bill ...