Jordan Smith

In a petition filed Friday, attorneys for three men on Oklahoma's death row show why each case reveals the death penalty to be cruel and unusual punishment.

Richard Glossip, the lead plaintiff in <em>Glossip v. Gross</em>, the Supreme Court decision that legalized a controversial form of lethal injection, now faces death — but he may well be innocent.

"I have fought the good fight," Bower said before he was killed by lethal injection. In his 31 years on death row, he saw 523 fellow prisoners sent to the death chamber.

At 67, Bower is set to die on June 3 for killing four people in 1984. But the case against him has mostly unraveled in the decades he has been on death row.

The report, issued by the ATF last July, includes investigations into the Bandidos and Cossacks, whose bloody clash last weekend left nine dead in Waco, Texas.

In 2015 alone, U.S. states have executed multiple prisoners with a history of serious mental illness, most recently Derrick Charles in Texas.

Nearly 50 percent of people wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death were prosecuted with the help of informants. One Texas lawmaker is trying to end this.

The FBI’s review of flawed hair analysis — its largest-ever post-conviction evaluation of questionable forensic evidence — is just the tip of the iceberg.

The state of Nevada says Kirstin Lobato committed a brutal murder in Vegas when she was 18. But apart from a wild rumor, no evidence connects her to the crime.