Ohio prison officials say they had no objection to a death-row inmate’s 17-minute prayer before his execution, but they did see the potential for future problems.
A DNA test performed 10 years after the execution of a Texas inmate raises questions about his guilt in the robbery and murder that sent him to death row.
In an effort to prevent, or at least postpone, the execution of a U.S. prison inmate on death row, a London-based human rights group says it has filed or will…
Freed yesterday after spending 18 years in prison for a capital crime he did not commit, Anthony Graves was initially convicted because of a “nightmare” of prosecutorial misconduct that included…
The U.S. Supreme Court lifted a stay of execution on Tuesday in the case of a death-row inmate who challenged the foreign origin of a lethal injection drug.
John Grisham’s new legal thriller, The Confession, combines fiction and advocacy in a story about a Lutheran pastor and a dying ex-con who stops by a church to confess to…
In what the Ohio Supreme Court describes in a slip opinion (PDF) today as a “highly extraordinary” case, it has vacated a death penalty conviction and ordered…
An attorney for the top criminal court judge in Texas hailed the elimination of a public warning earlier this month as a conclusive win for his client in a legal…
A three-judge special court of review has dismissed a “public warning” against the Texas judge who refused to keep the state’s top criminal court open late for an execution-eve appeal.
A national shortage of sodium thiopental, one of three drugs commonly included in a lethal cocktail used to execute prison inmates on death row, has created a “Russian roulette” scenario…
Justice Elena Kagan broke ranks with her female colleagues and voted to deny a stay of execution for Teresa Lewis, who died by lethal injection in Virginia Thursday evening.
It’s been 50 years since Harper Lee published her now-famous book To Kill a Mockingbird. But her fictional tale of racial injustice, focused on a Southern lawyer’s efforts to defend…
Legal thriller author John Grisham is taking a look at a real life case of a woman who got the death penalty for plotting two murders carried out by two…
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