On his final day in office in December, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper issued clemency to 15 people on death row. The N&O ...

Our state leads the nation in putting killers to death this year, but no one really believes death sentences are working.

In the fragile space between life and death, Florida prison inmates sit in a damp jail cell waiting to learn their fate.

Before Arizona’s latest execution, which was carried out in March, the average length of stay on death row for the last six ...

Tristan Tan's sentence for drug trafficking was commuted to life imprisonment. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

A Florida man who fatally stabbed his estranged wife’s sister and parents and then set fire to their house is scheduled for ...

Before Arizona’s latest execution, which was carried out in March, the average length of stay on death row for the last six ...

A TV version of The Rainmaker is out this week, which gave critic Linda Holmes as good a reason as any to rank the on-screen ...

A 21-year-old Ukrainian woman has been arrested in Bali for smuggling designer drugs and could face Indonesia's harshest penalty – execution by firing squad – under strict narcotics laws ...

The Grisham formula: Grisham’s hallmark plot pits a decent, everyday protagonist against powerful forces like the government, ...

Emotions ran high in Delta District Court on Wednesday, as Luke Shelton was sentenced to nearly six decades in prison for ...

David Pittman, 63, is set to die on September 17 in the record-extending 12th execution scheduled for this year, as two other men await execution later this month ...