In his last words, he told his mother and daughter that he loved them but expressed no remorse and did not repeat his claim ...

Emmanuel Littlejohn, 52, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and was declared dead at 10:17 a.m.

Death row inmates in five states are scheduled to be put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of ...

Last year, Missouri was one of five states in the country that carried out executions. Four people — Amber McLaughlin, ...

In a retrial that began after he spent 45 years on death row, 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada was found not guilty of a 1966 ...

CODEPINK is a feminist grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism, support peace and human rights ...

No more state-sanctioned barbarity. No more killing of innocent people like Marcellus Williams. Abolish the death penalty.

"All the data indicates that the American public is increasingly uncomfortable with use of the death penalty, yet elected ...

The judge said the court acknowledged multiple fabrications of evidence and that Iwao Hakamada was not the culprit, his ...

A review of Ohio's death row in wake of Missouri execution Tuesday shows 114 inmates, including 8 from Franklin County and 2 ...

Questions are still swirling around the execution of a Missouri man convicted of fatally stabbing a woman in 1998.

When the state of Missouri put Marcellus Williams to death on Tuesday night ... “Every time an innocent person is freed from ...