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Judge Austin Reeve Jackson will review evidence to determine if Robert Roberson should receive a new trial, after his ...

With only 15 days remaining before his scheduled execution, attorneys for death row inmate James Hitchcock have filed a ...

With a death warrant already signed, attorneys for James Hitchcock filed a critical reply brief with the Florida Supreme ...

Lance Shockley died by lethal injection last year. State courts have rejected prisoners' requests for DNA testing in recent years. Lance Shockley, a man on death row in Missouri, wanted items from the ...

The state's highest criminal court will not intervene in a Dallas County death penalty case despite another man claiming ...

Of all of the arguments against the death penalty, the strongest is that even one conviction of an innocent person is both ...

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 ...

Alabama is asking a federal appellate court to stop the new trial for a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row for a crime that DNA doesn’t tie him to. The Alabama Attorney General’s Office ...

This past week, Ohio Attorney general Dave Yost wrote a highly critical report on Ohio's capital punishment system.

For the first time in five years, an inmate has been added to Nebraska's death row bringing the total to 12. Here's ...