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.

cripple us to a point that we would never have a real fair shot at ever obtaining a death penalty for anyone," Barksdale said, adding that lawmakers should abolish the death penalty if that is ...

Lawyers are sparring over a COVID-19-related agreement that has shielded some people on Georgia's death row from execution.

Lee again ordered a pause on the death penalty after discovering the TN Dept ... And if you get a date, is that a real date? Or is that just we think maybe, perhaps, possibly, it might happen?” ...

Brad Sigmon will be the first person executed by firing squad in South Carolina and the oldest person ever put to death in ...

"The day of my execution is the beginning of my real life." Tabler became the fifth Death Row inmate executed in 2025 and the second one in Texas this year. Another 12 executions are scheduled for ...

Death penalty cases continued to wind their way through ... Logan Winkles, a lawyer for the state, argued that the vaccine is “in a real medical sense and in a legal sense” available to ...

Nine prisoners have walked free after evidence presented by members of a forensics team turned out to be wrong — yet one man ...

One terrible night 24 years ago, factory worker Brad Sigmon stayed up smoking crack cocaine and planning violent revenge.

As Trevor Murphy pulls up to his dad’s 20-acre (8-hectare) grove in one of the fastest-growing counties in the United States, ...