Death row inmates in Japanese jails are kept in solitary confinement and forced to wait for years, and sometimes decades, ...

And, with no executions in seven years, the only way people have left death row is because of winning an appeal or dying from ...

A man who is scheduled to be executed later this month for a 1993 murder continues to maintain his innocence, saying on Wednesday, "I didn't kill anybody. I didn't participate in any killing." Anthony ...

To be eligible for the death penalty in Ohio, the defendant must be at least 18 at the time of the crime and convicted of ...

An Alabama death row inmate used his final words to maintain his innocence before being suffocated to death with nitrogen gas ...

Ohio has not carried out an execution since 2018, creating a de facto moratorium under Gov. Mike DeWine. State lawmakers are at an impasse over whether to abolish capital punishment or authorize new ...

A man who is scheduled to be executed later this month for a 1993 murder continues to maintain his innocence, saying on Wednesday, "I didn't kill anybody. I didn't participate in any killing." Boyd ...

The application of Ohio's death penalty varies significantly by county, influenced by the views of elected prosecutors. Hamilton and Cuyahoga counties have historically sent the most people to death ...

Ohio passed a law in 2021 that exempted people with serious mental illnesses from being executed. Nine people have been removed from death row, with 25 cases still pending. Some death row inmates have ...

The British grandmother freed from death row in Bali for drug trafficking has finally landed back on home soil after 13 years ...