The Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a challenge by a death row inmate in Oklahoma who claims prosecutors “sex-shamed” her during her trial, referring to her as a “slut puppy” and holding ...

WASHINGTON—President Biden is considering commuting the sentences of most, if not all, of the 40 men on the federal government’s death row, people familiar with the matter said, a move that ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge has issued an order stopping the execution of Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman, which was scheduled to take place on March 18. Attorney General Liz ...

Mississippi's oldest prisoner on death row has filed an emergency stay of execution with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking for a last-minute reprieve. Richard Gerald Jordan, who turned 79 on May 25 ...

On Friday, the court granted an appeal from Ruben Gutierrez, a death row inmate in Texas who was denied an opportunity to seek post-conviction DNA testing. The case will likely be up for oral ...