The Supreme Court vacated a federal appeals court’s decision blocking a death row inmate’s execution because he says he’s intellectually disabled, ordering the lower court to issue a clearer ruling.

South Carolina law allows up to three media members to witness an execution who then share what they saw and heard inside the ...

News coverage of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson's stalled lethal injection raises questions about Texas executing the ...

Over a dozen states wrote in support of Alabama’s appeal, claiming that protections against cruel and unusual punishment have ...

Highlighting the disproportionate impact of government policies on vulnerable groups, Sato called for an intersectional approach to addressing Iran’s human rights issues.

Iran has executed a Jewish citizen convicted of murdering another man following a personal dispute. It was a rare case of an execution of member of a religious minority in the predominately Muslim ...

Testimony in the jury trial of capital murder suspect Cornell Brown is expected to begin Monday afternoon at Miller County ...

At a North Carolina rally, Trump vowed to "protect women" by shutting down the border. “The suburban women are under attack,” ...

Friday night in North Charleston, the ‘South Carolinians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty’ group held a vigil for ...

Justice360, a South Carolina nonprofit organization working to reform policies and practices in capital proceedings, released ...

South Carolina’s death penalty law is unevenly applied. Some horrific killers get life sentences, while those who commit ...

Moore was declared dead by lethal injection at 6:24 p.m. Friday; witnesses to the execution included two members of his ...