A private-sector panel made up of academics, legislators and other experts has called for a fundamental review of the problem ...

Melissa Lucio may be set free after findings that prosecutors withheld evidence that her 2-year-old died of an accidental ...

Melissa Lucio was two days away from being put to death in Texas for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter when an appeals ...

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has asked the Pardon and Parole Board to vote against recommending clemency for a man on death row for the 2006 murder of a 10-year-old girl in Purcell.

Melissa Lucio has been on death row in Texas since she was convicted in the death of her 2-year-old daughter in 2008.

A judge has set a July trial date for a man facing the death penalty in a daylong shooting rampage in Memphis, Tennessee.

There are about 1,300 reported cases of shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma in the U.S. each year, according to the National Center on Shaken ...

If the Mississippi Supreme Court doesn’t give Willie Jerome Manning another hearing, justices are expected to grant Attorney ...

A private-sector panel highlighted various problems with Japan’s capital punishment system, including the possibility of ...

The state of Missouri put him to death despite serious questions about the evidence against him, jurors’ misgivings, and the ...

When Centurion was founded, it was the first group of its kind working to overturn wrongful convictions for people facing ...

President-elect Donald Trump wants to expand the federal death penalty and undo the Biden-Harris administration's moratorium ...