Jordan Smith

An Oklahoma appeals court issued a last-minute stay of execution for Richard Glossip in order to consider new evidence that could prove his innocence.

The closer Oklahoma comes to killing Richard Glossip, the more reason there is to believe the state is about to execute an innocent man.

Kirstin Lobato has been waiting for the Nevada Supreme Court to rule on her appeal for four years. That's not unusual — in courts across the country.

Forensic dentists who peddled junk science now admit they were wrong. But will their colleagues — and the courts — listen?

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.