President Joe Biden is facing growing pressure to commute the sentences of the more than three dozen inmates sitting on federal death row before President-elect Donald Trump, a death penalty ...

Lucio's execution was delayed in 2022 amid calls to review her case. Melissa Lucio, the death row inmate who was convicted of capital murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, is speaking ...

As of Oct. 2, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...

OSAKA--A rare audio recording of an exchange between a death row inmate, his sister and prison staff two days before the man was hanged will be presented as evidence in a lawsuit filed by two ...

Lucio's execution was delayed in 2020 amid calls to review her case. The family of Melissa Lucio, a death row inmate whose execution was delayed in 2022, expressed hope that the Texas woman would ...

The man accused of murdering four University of Idaho students two years ago may be punished with the death penalty if he is ...

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) is urging President Biden to issue clemency to inmates on death row after the president signed a pardon for his son, Hunter, over the weekend. “Don‘t stop at Hunter ...

Public attention to the death penalty often focuses on the method of execution and questions about innocence and guilt. But the use of capital punishment has waned in the United States since the ...

Courtesy Innocence Project A Texas judge said that a mother who has been on death row since 2008 over the death of her toddler is "actually innocent," with a decision on her release now in the ...

MANILA, Philippines — More than 40 Filipinos abroad are presently on death row. Past midnight on Wednesday during the Senate’s marathon plenary debates on the proposed 2025 funding of the ...

The latest Texas death row news from The Texas Tribune. By Terri Langford Nov. 30, 2024 Senior District Judge Deborah Oakes Evans recused herself after a challenge to her impartiality over ...

A death row inmate convicted of killing her toddler daughter is “actually innocent” of murder and should be freed from custody, the prisoner's trial judge said in documents unearthed on Thursday.