A Kentucky lawmaker is hoping his quest to limit the pardon powers of governors in his state has received a jolt of momentum from public attention over the flurry of pardons and commuted sentences ...

A North Carolina judge has ruled that racial bias tainted jury selection and sentencing in the trial of a Black inmate who ...

South Carolina went 13 years between executions before restarting them last year in part because the state couldn’t obtain drugs for lethal injections. A shield law passed in 2023 keeps private the ...

An Alabama death row inmate who raped and murdered a woman in 1991 was executed this week using nitrogen gas, making him the ...

Alabama death row inmate becomes fourth prisoner to be executed with nitrogen gas - Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, was ...

Frazier was convicted of capital murder for breaking into a Birmingham woman's apartment, stealing cash, raping her at ...

Alabama death row inmate Demetrius Frazier became the first person executed while in the custody of the state of Michigan Thursday night.

An Alabama inmate convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday ...

Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CST at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 rape and killing of 41-year-old Pauline Brown. It was the first execution in ...

Alabama executed Demetrius Frazier for the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown two days before Thanksgiving.

This is not in any way lessening due process for those who are convicted and are facing the death penalty,” said Rep. Bruce ...