Travis Scott is coming to the defense of a Texas man whose rap lyrics were used during sentencing to decide upon capital punishment.

For just the second time, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has used her powers to order the commutation of a prisoner’s death sentence.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Charles “Sonny” Burton, a man who had been on death row for 35 years and was two days away from execution.

Anti-capital punishment advocates say the death penalty is costlier to taxpayers than life in prison because many defendants appeal their sentences, and the appeals process can force victims’ families to relive their trauma.

Southwest Ohio's longest-serving resident on the state's Death Row has died, just over 40 years after he was arrested for the deaths of five family members in Dayton. Samuel Moreland, 72, died