Iouri Mikhel was sentenced to death in 2007 after being convicted of a kidnapping-for-ransom scheme in California where he ...

William Zeigler was convicted in 1976 of murdering four people inside his Winter Garden furniture store on Christmas Eve, 1975.

Oklahoma’s top prosecutor is asking the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer an inmate to state custody so that he can be ...

Iouri Mikhel filed a petition seeking to block his sentence from being commuted from death to life imprisonment without ...

Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...

A federal judge has denied a motion by a former Southwest Missouri man who seeks to overturn the commutation of his death sentence by then-President Joe Biden. Shannon Wayne Agofsky, 53, formerly of ...

Though Trump is unable to put the commuted inmates back on death row, he did ask the attorney general in the order to “take ...

Brenda Andrew was convicted of murder in a 2004 trial where prosecutors presented evidence about her sex life.

Brenda Andrew, convicted of murdering her husband, can pursue claim that prosecutors inappropriately focused on her sex life ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered lower courts to review the case of the only woman on Oklahoma's death row over concerns that prosecutors' discussion of her sexual history rendered her trial ...

As three men challenge their commutations, others brace for imminent prison transfers and the finality of a life sentence ...

I have not seen much press about President Trump's order concerning the death penalty. But several provisions could prove to be quite significant. First, ...