Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

Aaron Brian Gunches' execution would mark a resumption of Arizona's use of the death penalty after a two-year pause while it ...

An Arizona death row prisoner asked the state’s highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier ...

An Alabama man has been sentenced to death for fatally shooting two people in 2020. Derrick Hightower was sentenced Thursday ...

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

Days before jury selection was set at the courthouse, the District Attorney’s Office announced they will no longer be going ...

The beneficiary of the new position is assistant District Attorney Matthew W. Welickovitch who until three years ago was one ...

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Iran has pledged to assist in the case of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, who is currently on death row in Yemen. A senior ...