The Supreme Court vacated a federal appeals court’s decision blocking a death row inmate’s execution because he says he’s intellectually disabled, ordering the lower court to issue a clearer ruling.
South Carolina law allows up to three media members to witness an execution who then share what they saw and heard inside the ...
News coverage of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson's stalled lethal injection raises questions about Texas executing the ...
Over a dozen states wrote in support of Alabama’s appeal, claiming that protections against cruel and unusual punishment have ...
Highlighting the disproportionate impact of government policies on vulnerable groups, Sato called for an intersectional approach to addressing Iran’s human rights issues.
Iran has executed a Jewish citizen convicted of murdering another man following a personal dispute. It was a rare case of an execution of member of a religious minority in the predominately Muslim ...
Testimony in the jury trial of capital murder suspect Cornell Brown is expected to begin Monday afternoon at Miller County ...
Friday night in North Charleston, the ‘South Carolinians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty’ group held a vigil for ...
Three jurors, Moore’s trial judge, and a former state prison director called for the 59-year-old to get clemency ...
Several officials released statements after the execution of South Carolina inmate Richard Moore. South Carolina State ...
South Carolina’s death penalty law is unevenly applied. Some horrific killers get life sentences, while those who commit ...
A Black man scheduled to be put to death for murder Friday evening in South Carolina is asking the US Supreme Court for a ...