Clemency, the power granted to the governor of a state to reduce or commute a criminal sentence, is a complex legal process that often comes into focus during high-profile capital punishment cases. In ...

Stacey Humphreys​, 52, was convicted of malice murder and other crimes in the 2003 shooting deaths of Cyndi Williams, 33, and ...

Tennessee's corrections chief said Wednesday that the department expects to unveil a new process for executing inmates by the end of the year, signaling a possible end to a yearslong pause due to ...

Idaho prison officials must let media witnesses at executions watch as lethal injection drugs are prepared and administered to a condemned person, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge ...

An Arizona Republic reporter was among the media witnesses to the execution of Aaron Gunches in Florence on Wednesday. Gunches was put to death for killing Ted Price. He kidnapped and shot Price ...

WEST JORDAN — Shortly after a district judge decided death-row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies is competent to be executed, his attorneys asked the Utah Supreme Court to review the decision. The judge ...