A former Memphis police officer who has pleaded guilty to violating Tyre Nichols’ civil rights has testified that he was ...

Death Row inmate Emanuel Littlejohn is seeking a final appeal to Oklahoma Governor Stitt office as he is scheduled to die by ...

Lawyers for a Missouri man have filed a late appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court alleging there were racial bias and ...

Two men on death row were to be executed Tuesday in the United States, including a Black man convicted of murder whose ...

"Two on a single day is unusual, and four on two days in the same week is also very unusual," said Robin Maher of the Death Penalty Information Center.

The case raises the specter of potentially putting an innocent person to death, an inherent risk of capital punishment. At least 200 people sentenced to death since 1973 were later exonerated, ...

Marcellus Williams, the Missouri death row inmate who has maintained his innocence for nearly 24 years, is scheduled to be ...

Williams, 55, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6pm CT on Tuesday for the murder of Lisha Gayle, a social worker and ...

Missouri plans to execute death row prisoner Marcellus Williams on Tuesday. He was convicted of murdering a newspaper ...

Missouri is set Tuesday to execute Marcellus Williams, a death row inmate whose case has spurred several efforts to save his ...

Coincidence or not, a close look at each of the cases in which someone will be executed this week highlights not just the ...

The execution is opposed both by Gayle's family and the prosecutor's office that put Williams on death row — an unprecedented combination. “The family defines closure as Marcellus being allowed to ...