The bill, which has nine sponsors right now, proposes amending the N.C. Constitution to require legislative approval of all ...

Since 1973, 4% of death row inmates are now exonerees, but that doesn’t tell you anything about how many people with ...

After the woman spent 27 years on death row for killing an 80-year-old man, the court found that prosecutors failed to reveal ...

Louisiana inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. has argued the state's execution protocol is undisclosed and violates his constitutional ...

Jessie Hoffman, 46, has spent nearly his entire adult life on death row. In 1998, he was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1996 fatal shooting, rape, robbery and kidnapping of 28-year-old ...

Now 20 years later, those who know him say he's a deeply faithful man who has become so gentle, he recently hand-raised a baby lizard in his cell on Texas Death Row. "The man I was 20 years ago is ...