Lawyers are sparring over a COVID-19-related agreement that has shielded some people on Georgia's death row from execution.

Black recruits represented nearly 60% of those who died, a striking disparity given that federal data show Black officers ...

At least 29 recruits died during basic training at law enforcement academies around the country in the last decade, an AP ...

President Donald Trump has begun his America First overhaul of government, signing scores of executive orders in his first ...

The state has never used that method to execute a prisoner. The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 ...

Elections have consequences, so the slogan goes. One of those consequences was on full display Feb. 5, in the minutes after ...

The next inmate set to be put to death will be the first to die by firing squad in South Carolina. Brad Sigmon is set to be executed on March 7 for the 2001 baseball bat killings of his ...

A federal judge rejected a Georgia death row inmate's request to be executed ... The case was originally filed in January 2020 and has already moved to the U.S. Supreme Court once.

Nine states have put more inmates to death. But since the unintentional pause, the death row population has dwindled to 29 currently, compared with 63 in early 2011. About 20 have been taken off ...

He had also asked that his appeals be dropped and that he be put to death, though he had gone back and forth on the decision multiple times, the AP reported. “More than twenty years after his ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.