State of Florida will ask for the death penalty at Pablo Ibar retrial

Pablo Ibar The Spaniard of Basque descent has already spent 16 years on death row, after a conviction in the 1990s for a triple-homicide The...

Texas: New Rodney Reed Filing; Death row inmate's lawyers seek retrial

Texas death row, Polusnky Unit, Livingston, TX Attorneys for death row inmate Rodney Reed have filed a supplement to the Feb. 2015 brief see...

Oklahoma: Jurors choose death penalty for Oklahoma City man convicted of rapes, murder

Oklahoma death chamber Jurors on Wednesday chose the death penalty as punishment for an Oklahoma City man convicted of raping his girlfriend...

U.S. Supreme Court Reverses Another Alabama Death Penalty Case

For the 4th time in 2 months, the United States Supreme Court today overturned an Alabama death penalty case in which EJI challenged the con...

Louisiana: Local attorney compares Angola death row to POW hot boxes

Louisiana death row NEW ORLEANS—U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson questions why the state has spent more than $1 million fighting to prevent...

US Senate Votes Down 4 Measures Meant to Curb Gun Sales

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Monday failed to advance four separate measures aimed at curbing gun sales, the latest display of congressional i...

Death penalty case latest test for Arkansas court

A looming Arkansas Supreme Court decision over whether information about execution drugs should be kept secret could reveal whether the stat...

Connecticut: Law Provides Guidance On How Former Death-Row Inmates Will Be Housed

Maximum-security Northern Correctional Institution in Somers Everyday life for Maryland's death-row inmates barely changed in 2014 when ...