The executions in Alabama, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas will mark the first time in more than 20 years that ...

The unusually high number of executions defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty ...

The world's longest-serving death row prisoner hears from a Japanese court on Thursday if he will again face execution or ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Death row inmates in five states are scheduled to be put to death in the span of one week, an unusually ...

Read more The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments Monday on two issues pursued by death row ...

One day before he’s scheduled to be executed, a Missouri death row inmate could learn whether his fate will change after the ...

The execution of Marcellus Williams will proceed Tuesday, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled in a decision rejecting efforts to ...

Attorneys for Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams argued before the court Monday that Williams did not receive a fair criminal ...

(CNN) — The Missouri Supreme Court has declined to halt tomorrow’s execution of a death row inmate prosecutors say may be ...

Williams is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle in St. Louis County. On Sept. 12, ...

In South Carolina, the governor has sole authority to grant clemency. However, no South Carolina governor has granted ...