Ohio's error rate in sending people to death row is troubling, as are the reasons for those wrongful convictions.

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In an exclusive interview at home in Oklahoma City, Richard Glossip describes his first days of freedom in a world he hasn’t ...

Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on The Constitution, joined the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act, bicameral legislation led by Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dick ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday dismissed an appeal from Alabama in a death row case by declining to look at how IQ scores ...

Amnesty International Ghana has entreated the President, John Dramani Mahama, to exercise his prerogative of mercy to commute ...

An NBC News analysis of final statements from prisoners on Texas’ death row shows that some convey a readiness to die. Others are defiant. Many seek salvation.