By the end of 2024, the total number on death row reached 6,161 — a significant increase from 2022, when death row prisoners numbered 3,226, according to a 2024 report by Justice Project Pakistan.

Just days before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office, the Department of Justice has announced its decision to withdraw the federal government’s lethal injection protocol on the ...

France has sent Indonesia an official request for the transfer of a French death row inmate who has spent nearly 20 years in prison, an Indonesian minister told AFP on Saturday. Indonesia has in ...

On his final day in office Tuesday, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 people on North Carolina's death row. It comes on the heels of a similar decision days earlier by ...

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences to life in prison without parole, as they seek to appeal their cases ...

A Japanese death-row inmate, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers, has died in a detention centre at age 78, officials said on Friday. Chisako Kakehi was ...

The popular BBC series, Life and Death Row, is set to return to our screens after a decade-long hiatus. The show will be back on BBC Three and iPlayer from Tuesday 21 January, featuring three ...

President Biden's recent move to commute the sentences of 37 of 40 federal inmates on death row has been met with praise by some and criticism by others, who say it's unclear why the president ...

reducing the state’s death row population by more than 10%. Cooper, who was barred from seeking a third consecutive four-year term, will give way to fellow Democrat Josh Stein on Wednesday when ...

Oklahoma’s death row is dwindling with each execution. No court in the state has imposed a death sentence since May 13, 2022, when a Tulsa County judge followed a jury’s recommendation and ...

Mr Trump was responding to President Joe Biden's decision to commute the sentences of almost all federal inmates on death row - whom Mr Trump called "37 of the worst killers in our country".

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences to life in prison without parole as they seek to appeal their cases ...