Death penalty cases cost taxpayers significantly more than cases where inmates serve life sentences. Capital cases are more expensive due to lengthy trials, extensive appeals, and specialized housing ...

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - A local defense attorney and others throughout the state weigh in on the big decision to spare a death row inmate’s life. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death ...

An Alabama man who was outside a building when a man was killed in an armed robbery is looking at life as "a gift from God" after being granted clemency by the state’s governor just days before he was ...

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed’s fight for DNA testing nearly three years after allowing his bid to prove his innocence to move forward, a move that ...

The death penalty has long been justified as a final form of justice, but its flaws are difficult to ignore. Since 1973, at least 200 individuals on death row in the United States have been exonerated ...

A Texas death row inmate who killed his ex-girlfriend and her 8-year-old son used his final moments before execution Wednesday to apologize to the woman’s surviving son — whom he stabbed 25 times ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas death row inmate convicted of killing his common-law wife and child during a stabbing attack is scheduled to be executed Wednesday, according to information from the Texas ...

The Florida death row killer executed Tuesday night for the grisly rape and murder of a married mom reportedly devoured a modest spread of sweet and savory comfort foods for his final meal. Michael ...