Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, was convicted of the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown. Frazier raped and shot her ...

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun suggested Monday he could reverse the previous administration’s unwillingness to disclose how much ...

Two mass clemency decisions contributed. But more prisoners leave death row after courts overturn their sentences. As a ...

After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ask the governor for ...

Rejon Taylor told Newsweek that he had received notice he would be transferred to ADX Florence, a "supermax" facility known for its harsh conditions.

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...

Iouri Mikhel filed a petition seeking to block his sentence from being commuted from death to life imprisonment without parole.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with an Oklahoma woman on death row who argued that extensive evidence about her “sex life” rendered her trial unfair, kicking her case back to a lower court ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (CNN) — Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences to life in prison without parole, as they seek to ...

Both inmates asked for the U.S. Court in the Southern District of Indiana — which encompasses Terre Haute, where most federal death row inmates are held — to issue emergency orders blocking the ...

Both inmates asked for the U.S. Court in the Southern District of Indiana — which encompasses Terre Haute, where most federal death row inmates are held — to issue emergency orders blocking ...