With another execution set, Brevard’s death row is nearly empty as Florida carries out a record number of executions.

In a list of orders released on Monday morning, the Supreme Court reversed a ruling by a federal appeals court, holding that a Vermont police officer is entitled to qualified immunity from a lawsuit ...

A Lake County judge on Wednesday turned down a request by death row inmate James Duckett to order a further analysis of DNA test results in the case of an 11-year-old girl who was brutally murdered ...

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

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice in a 1991 murder from execution on Thursday. Gov. Kay Ivey, in announcing ...

Missouri lawmakers are considering a bill to abolish the death penalty, citing its financial and human costs. The state's public defender system spends nearly $3 million annually on staff dedicated to ...