For too long, this country’s criminal legal system has perpetuated violence, brutality, and murder, with Black people bearing the brunt. While methods may change, the underlying outcomes remain the ...

In the U.S., individuals can face the death penalty even when their guilt is not proven beyond a reasonable doubt. A ...

"This is the second news of death (read murder') in police custody in the last 16 days in the Uttar Pradesh capital. The government, which is an expert in changing names, should now change the ...

In a last-minute effort to save the life of a man on death row, a bipartisan group of Texas legislators has just done something extraordinary: they have unanimously subpoenaed Robert Roberson ...

The Governor was asked by the Innocence Project and thousands of Americans to stop the killing of Marcellus Williams, who had been placed on death row in Missouri for the killing of Felicia Gayle ...

Felicia Gayle was murdered in 1981 and her murder was linked to Marcellus Williams through ... Williams spent two decades on death row, but throughout those two decades, he maintained his innocence ...

Williams spent 20 years on death row after being found guilty in 2003 of killing Felicia Gayle ... connecting Williams to the murder weapon after new testing was conducted in 2016. The original ...

Death row inmate Robert Roberson did not appear Monday ... on the inmate’s case and the shaken baby syndrome diagnosis his murder conviction was built upon – but Roberson himself was absent.

Lawmakers may bolster law on "junk science" convictions Death row inmate was convicted of murdering daughter Oct 18 (Reuters) - A man on death row in Texas who had expected to be executed on ...

He was indicted for blunt force trauma and murder of a 2-year-old ... Lawmakers said issuing a subpoena to a death row inmate hours before their scheduled execution is something no legislature ...

(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) HAMAMATSU, Japan (AP) -- Hideko Hakamada, 91, spent much of her life working to free her brother from nearly a half-century on death row. Now that he has been acquitted ...