As a public defender for 24 years, including five as director of the Missouri State Public Defender System, Mary Fox sought to educate juries—and sway them against the death penalty. Now in her ...

Christa Pike received the death sentence at age 18 for the 1995 torture slaying of Colleen Slemmer, who was a fellow ...

An Arkansas death row inmate on Friday requested a competency evaluation to determine if he can waive his remaining appeals ...

Condemned man Roy Lee Ward has withdrawn the final two federal lawsuits that sought to delay his execution, effectively ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday scheduled what would be the first execution of a woman in Tennessee in over 200 years.

A woman in Tennessee has been scheduled for execution next year. Have any women been out to death in Florida? Yes, and one is ...

Richard Djerf is scheduled to be executed on Oct. 17 for the 1993 murders of four members of the Luna family. Djerf has ...

Only Missouri and Indiana allow judges to impose capital punishment when a jury can't decide whether to sentence a defendant ...

Pike has been on death row since 1996. She murdered a woman in Knoxville with the help of her 17-year-old boyfriend.

West was found guilty of capital murder in the 1997 killing of Margaret Parrish Berry, who was 33 at the time. When asked by ...

The Indiana Parole Board had previously recommended that Braun reject clemency for Ward, who raped and murdered a 15-year-old girl.