The NAACP is urgently calling on Missouri Governor Mike Parson to stop the execution of Marcellus Williams, a, a Black man who’s been on death row for years, maintaining his innocence. In an open ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate will be in federal court Wednesday trying to convince a judge that the state is not properly carrying out lethal injections or firing ...

Barring any action from Gov. Eric Holcomb or a swift federal court ruling, Indiana is poised to carry out the execution of death row inmate Joseph E. Corcoran, the first state prisoner to be put to ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stop the execution of South Carolina inmate Richard Moore, a Black inmate whose lawyers say he is the only person on the death’s death row convicted by a ...

FILE – This undated photo from the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Geoffrey West. (Alabama Department of Corrections via AP, File) MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Will Berry was 11 when his mother was ...

Congresswoman Cori Bush is asking Governor Mike Parson to stop the scheduled execution of convicted killer Brian Dorsey. The 52- year-old is set to die next Tuesday for killing his cousin and her ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stop the execution of Freddie Owens who is set to die by lethal injection next week in the state's first execution in 13 years. The justices ...

Advocates from several organizations that oppose the death penalty delivered a petition to Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday opposing the execution of Jamie Ray Mills, which is scheduled for Thursday. Mills is ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC/WIS/AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stop the execution of a Black South Carolina inmate whose lawyers say he is the only person on the death’s death row ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A district judge dissolved an order to stop the execution of Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman. Hoffman’s execution is set for the evening of Tuesday, ...

Michigan was the first state to ban the death penalty as one of our first legislative acts, passing a bill in 1846, which took effect in 1847. In 1963, Michigan updated the state constitution to ...