Biden's sweeping commutations of federal death sentences excluded Dylann Roof, a white supremacist prisoner who murdered Black church parishioners.
Civil rights leaders are pressuring President Joe Biden to commute all federal death sentences before Donald Trump takes office.
Civil rights leader and attorney Lee Merritt addresses the execution of Imam Khaliifah ibn Rayford Daniels ‘Abdul-Qudduus, also known as Marcellus Williams.
There are many ways to describe what happened to Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams on Sept. 24. But the one that fits the best is a lynching.
Black death row inmates are disproportionately vulnerable to being victimized by botched executions, a new report has found.
All pending death penalty cases in Alameda County, California, were ordered reviewed after the revelation of a racist and antisemitic scandal that targeted Black and Jewish inmates.
South Carolina Carolina lawmakers are debating changing a controversial bill that would impose the death penalty for terminating a pregnancy. The bill has been dubbed the South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act of 2023.
Republican State Rep. Paul Sherrell apologized for suggesting Tennessee's death row inmates be executed via "hanging by a tree."
Payton Gendron will get a life sentence for a racist mass shooting in Buffalo, but the death penalty is still very much a real possibility thanks to his federal hate crime charges.
The 14-year-old was the youngest person ever executed in the U.S. in the 20th century.
It wasn't just that Joshua Lee Burgess killed his daughter Zaria, but it was also how he killed the 15-year-old that drew attention to the case.
