On Oct. 7, Ernest Ray Willis walked away from Texas’ death row a free man – the eighth condemned prisoner to be exonerated since the reinstatement of the death penalty. Willis was sentenced to die for ...

A new study says 1 in 25 death row inmates are likely innocent. With over 3000 people currently on death row in America, the number of potential innocents is no small number.

Nationwide support for the death penalty continues to decline, even as some states have ramped up their executions. In Pennsylvania, the death penalty is legal and there are 94 people on death row but ...

(The Root) — On May 7, officials at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, better known as “ol’ Parchman,” planned to strap Willie Jerome Manning to a gurney and pump a lethal cocktail of drugs into his ...

Robert Roberson listens as his lawyers plead his case on July 16, 2025. A new execution date of Oct. 16, 2025 was set by presiding Judge Austin Jackson of Smith County at the Anderson County ...

A man who is scheduled to be executed later this month for a 1993 murder continues to maintain his innocence, saying on Wednesday, "I didn't kill anybody. I didn't participate in any killing." Anthony ...

A death row inmate convicted of killing her toddler daughter is “actually innocent” of murder and should be freed from custody, the prisoner's trial judge said in documents unearthed on Thursday.