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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt spared an Tremane Wood's life moments before he was to receive a lethal injection on Thursday.
U.S. Congresswoman Pressley said capital punishment has been "disproportionately weaponized" against Black and brown communities.
"What Trump is pushing now isn’t justice or safety, it’s a death to democracy itself," said Jamal Holtz, president of…
Michael Bernard Bell, convicted of multiple murders is set to be executed Tuesday—marking the 26th execution in the U.S. this…
Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday, in the first state execution after a 15-year hiatus.
A juror at the 1994 trial for Robin "Rocky" Myers is among those urging Gov. Kay Ivey to consider clemency.
Days after announcing a new manual for executing death row inmates, Tennessee's top prison officials said they aren't going to release…
Trump criticizes Biden's commutation of 37 death row inmates and vows to revive the death penalty, sparking debate over capital…
The Supreme Court’s recent treatment of capital cases is rife with disregard for systemic racial discrimination.
Moore's lawyers have asked Gov. Henry McMaster for clemency, which no governor in South Carolina has granted in the previous…
The White House declined to comment on the execution of Marcellus Williams after theGrio asked about President Biden's personal reaction.
Emmanuel Littlejohn, 52, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and was declared dead at 10:17 a.m.
Williams was put to death despite questions his attorneys raised over jury selection at his trial and the handling of…
Willie James Pye, 59, is scheduled to be the first person executed in Georgia since January 2020.
Zimbabwe is one of more than a dozen countries in Africa that have the death penalty enshrined in law without…
Convicted killer Kenneth Eugene Smith was put to death using nitrogen gas, the United States' first execution by a new…
The meeting between DOJ officials and victims of Payton Gendron will take place ahead of an already scheduled status conference.
Judge overturns Mississippi death penalty case, says racial bias in picking jury wasn’t fully argued
U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills ruled that the state of Mississippi must give Terry Pitchford a new trial on…
Rejon Taylor hoped the election of Joe Biden, the first U.S. president to campaign on a pledge to end the death…
One Idaho death row inmate has already had his execution postponed repeatedly because of lethal drug scarcity.