Virginia moved one step closer to abolishing the death penalty, a measure that polling shows is overwhelmingly supported by Black…
Activists like Martin Luther King III want his death sentence commuted.
Rodney Reed is scheduled to be executed in six days.
Rodney Reed was convicted of killing a white woman by an all-white jury in 1998.
California imposes a moratorium on the death penalty.
Updated: February 3, 2016, 8:25 AM ET Brandon Astor Jones, convicted of murder in the death of a convenience store…
The court argued the Kansas case in October 2015 and came to an 8 to 1 decision on Wednesday. Justice…
President Barack Obama and Russian leader Vladimir Putin haven’t always seen eye-to-eye, but Monday they will come face-to-face to lay lingering…
Glenn Ford was freed last year after serving 30 years on Louisiana’s death row for a crime he didn’t commit.…
Charles Stinney, the brother of the youngest person executed in the United States, spoke to theGrio.com about the controversial execution.…
UPDATED (December 17, 2014): Seventy years after 14-year-old George Stinney became the youngest person in American history to be executed,…
In the wake of several high-profile capital punishment cases, the death penalty is once again becoming a hot button political…
FLORENCE, Ariz. — A man convicted of killing two people in a 1989 Phoenix convenience store robbery was executed Tuesday…
Chicago, Illinois — Democratic Governor Pat Quinn says he will be abolishing Illinois’ death penalty; a stance made after consulting…
WASHINGTON — At a hearing scheduled for Monday, December 6, a district court in Texas will decide whether the death…
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s governor spared the life of Sidney Cornwell, a man facing execution Tuesday for killing a 3-year-old,…
The State of Utah’s June 18 execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner broke ground in American history as the first execution…
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