“I was expecting a lot of guilt,” writes death row investigator and ‘The Talking Bone’ author Rene Denfeld. “I did not expect ...

Sabrina Smith was only 17 when a predominately White Mississippi jury convicted her in 1989 for fatally beating her 9-month-old son. "The judge said, 'we sentence you to death by lethal injection. May ...

By Doug Livingston, Brittany Hailer and Beth Schwartzapfel for The Marshall Project-Cleveland, a nonprofit news team covering ...

When Florida executes James “Ernie” Hitchcock on Thursday evening, the state will be ending the life of a prisoner who has been condemned to die longer than almost anyone else. The state will also, ...

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RICHMOND, Va. AP - Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has issued an "absolute pardon" to a man who spent nearly a decade on death row and came within nine days of being executed for a murder he did not commit.The ...

With only 15 days remaining before his scheduled execution, attorneys for death row inmate James Hitchcock have filed a high-stakes appeal with the Florida Supreme Court, arguing that the state is ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Toforest Johnson, 49, has spent half his life on Alabama’s death row for the murder of a sheriff's deputy, a killing he says he did not commit. Johnson’s attorneys asked the ...

The Marshall Project analyzed over 9,000 death sentences handed down since states brought the punishment back ...

James Hitchcock has lived under a death sentence for nearly half a century. On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stay his execution. James Hitchcock appears in Florida prison mug shots ...