death row

A Black man in Mississippi who spent over 25 years on death row has been freed after key evidence used in his…

The death penalty—a thing supposedly reserved for perpetrators of the most heinous crimes, typically involving…

Five out of nine surviving jurors who condemned Brandon Bernard to death at the age of 18 say they regret their…

Curtis Flowers, a 50 year old Black man in Mississippi, is finally free of the murder charges he was tried for six…

When he’s not fighting for touchdowns on the field, Dak Prescott is apparently fighting for justice off of it.

June 16 is Tupac Amaru Shakur’s birthday. Today—June 16, 2020—he’d be 49 years old. Since it’s Tupac’s birthday and…

Lonnie Franklin Jr., the convicted serial killer nicknamed “The Grim Sleeper,” was found dead in his cell this…

Curtis Flowers walked out of a Mississippi prison a free man for the first time in more than two decades. All it…

For the first time since resuming capital punishment last year, the Tennessee Supreme Court has pumped the brakes on…

Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Philadelphia radio journalist convicted and imprisoned almost 40 years for the 1981…

Following years of appeals, a Utah man sentenced to death for a 1985 murder is set to get a new hearing after the…

The Supreme Court agreed that at least one of the jurors who convicted a Georgia man of murder was a virulent…

Updated: Monday, July 17, 2018; 3:53 EDT: When I wrote this piece, I was not aware that, according to court records, …

Right now, hip-hop is in the midst of an actually entertaining rap beef. Both Drake and Pusha T, two capable…

More than a year ago, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals violated…

In an announcement late Friday, Harris County, Texas, District Attorney Kim Ogg revealed that a former prosecutor…

Updated: Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017; 3:30 p.m. EDT: Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has issued a stay of execution in the…

The state of Arkansas is on a mission to complete eight executions over a period of 10 days during the month of…

A Texas mother whose son is on death row will be able to visit him a final time before his execution thanks to…

On Saturday evening, Lifetime aired Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge, and Michel’le, which as the title suggests, is the…