HOUSTON (AP) — An appeals court on Wednesday denied a new trial request from longtime Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed, whose supporters say there is evidence to back his claims of innocence.

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...

Oklahoma's only female death row inmate, whose attorneys argue was "sex-shamed" during her husband's murder trial, may have another day in court after a Tuesday Supreme Court ruling. Brenda Andrew ...

Mikhel is among the 37 inmates on federal death row whose death sentences Biden commuted to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole in December. Biden said he was acting because he ...

Only three inmates remain on federal death row and all have appeals that must be resolved before their executions can be carried out. Just hours after returning to the White House last Monday ...

The execution of Marion Bowman Jr. is set for Jan. 31, but he is concerned that the drug used to put another man to death in November required two large doses more than 11 minutes apart.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Johni Broome scored 20 of his 26 points in the second half and had 16 rebounds to help top-ranked ...

Reed was charged with first-degree murder in the death of 14-year-old Kamarjay Shaw after Shaw was shot in the back on March 18, 2023, while running away from Reed’s home at 1318 Maple Lane in ...

Death. It’s the one certainty we all share, yet it’s become the shadow we dare not name. How did this happen? How did something as natural and sacred as death transform into a subject of fear ...

Procedures for their executions should meet human rights standards. Death row inmates are informed of their executions on the day they are carried out and then escorted to the scaffold.

I spoke with U.S. Sen. Jack Reed last Wednesday about the chilling effect Hegseth’s confirmation will have on active-duty service members, veterans and the nation. As Reed said ...

Born on the east side of Detroit and now living in Lansing, Rodney Whitaker, 57, an internationally known jazz bassist, was being inducted as an esteemed member of the organization. The director ...