Sabrina Smith was only 17 when a predominately White Mississippi jury convicted her in 1989 for fatally beating her 9-month-old son. "The judge said, 'we sentence you to death by lethal injection. May ...

When Florida executes James “Ernie” Hitchcock on Thursday evening, the state will be ending the life of a prisoner who has been condemned to die longer than almost anyone else. The state will also, ...

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A coalition of faith leaders, legal experts and exonerated death-row inmates is urging Gov. Bill Lee to stop the execution of Tony Von Carruthers. They say untested DNA evidence from the 1994 crime ...

With only 15 days remaining before his scheduled execution, attorneys for death row inmate James Hitchcock have filed a high-stakes appeal with the Florida Supreme Court, arguing that the state is ...

The Marshall Project analyzed over 9,000 death sentences handed down since states brought the punishment back ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A new report released Monday highlights the dozens of Ohio death penalty cases in which potentially innocent people have been sentenced to death. The group Ohioans to Stop ...

On Jan. 16, 2004, Nick Yarris made history when he became the first person who had been sentenced to death in Pennsylvania and was exonerated through DNA evidence. In December 1981, Yarris was ...