South Carolina’s Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state’s next execution after allowing a pause for the Christmas ...

Plus: President-elect Donald Trump says he will rename the country's tallest mountain, reverting to a former name. | The year ...

On his way out of office, former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of death row inmates, as the Tar Heel State has halted executions amid litigation over the past 20 years.

Thirty-one years after being sentenced to death, a Fairfax County killer had his sentence changed to life in prison.

Tennessee prison officials say they won't publicly release the the state's latest manual for executing death row inmates ...

Tarrant County now leads Dallas County in the number of people awaiting execution, according to state prison data and court ...

A New Year’s Eve fireworks explosion in a Honolulu-area neighborhood killed two people died and injured 10 others, ...

As President Biden prepares to leave office, he indicated that he was commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 inmates on ...

Under President Joe Biden’s commutation logic, if a death row inmate, whose sentence is commuted to life in prison, and while ...

Gov. Roy Cooper announced he would change the death sentences of 15 people to life in prison without parole as one of his ...

Outgoing North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on Tuesday announced 15 commutations of the death penalty to life in prison ...