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

Anthony Williams, 41, Connor Brown, 22, and Zacharia Luz, 42, were killed in the July 30 fight at Ely State Prison.

Jimmie Chris Duncan is on death row in Louisiana for a crime that experts now say may never have happened. His case has ...

Nevada prosecutors say 20 people have been charged in connection with a brawl at a maximum-security prison in eastern Nevada ...

That doesn’t mean that the nature of North Carolina politics has changed, however. It just means that, right now, it isn’t ...

Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.

In January, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a federal court to consider whether an Oklahoma woman named Brenda Andrew should ...

Anthony Apanovitch has for decades sought to overturn his conviction of the 1984 rape and murder of Mary Anne Flynn, a case ...

Melly could be sentenced to death by a non-unanimous jury — a practice with deep roots in Jim Crow — if convicted in a double homicide.

Attorney Michael Clough, who was representing convicted arsonist Raymond Lee Oyler in a death penalty ... October of 2006. Oyler has since spent more than a decade sitting on Death Row at San ...

House Bill 64 would change the State Constitution to require a Governor to get approval from the General Assembly.