Kevin Cooper was convicted of murdering a married couple and two children, and was sentenced to die. That was back in 1985. Cooper is still awaiting execution on California's death row. San Bernardino ...

In theory, the death penalty is reserved for “the worst of the worst.” In practice, it is very different. People who are ...

It is only the second commutation for Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican. The inmate, Charles Burton, was scheduled to die even ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A woman on Tennessee's death row is fighting for her life in court, claiming the state's execution method could cause her to drown in her own blood. Christa Pike is suing the ...

A bipartisan group of Missouri lawmakers and religious leaders want to abolish the death penalty, citing its financial and human costs.

>> LOOK AT THIS BEHIND US. THIS IS THE NUMBER OF DEATH PENALTY EXECUTIONS IN OUR COUNTRY SINCE 1977. YOU SEE THE LATE 90'S. THAT WAS THE PEAK. BUT THEN A GRADUAL DECLINE. >> THAT IS UNTIL NOW. THIS UP ...

Governor Kay Ivey is commuting the sentence of Alabama death row inmate Charles “Sonny” Burton. He had spent the last thirty years awaiting execution for the 1991 killing of Doug Battle at a Talladega ...

If I had to use one word to describe the ethos of the courtroom last week, it was a simple one — sad. The 80-year-old defendant, a man who’s been on death row for half a century, was slight, slumped ...

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is criticizing Gov. Kay Ivey’s decision to commute the death sentence of Charles “Sonny” Burton, who was days away from being executed.