As Melvin Trotter faces execution today for a 1986 killing in Florida, his attorneys argue his intellectual disability has been long-documented.

By outlawing indefinite solitary confinement for death row inmates, Oklahoma joins states like Hawaii, Connecticut, and New York, which have ended this practice in recent years. Some prisoners remain ...

Melvin Trotter was sentenced to death for the brutal 1986 murder of Virgie Langford during a convenience store robbery in ...

Melvin Trotter was executed Feb. 24 for the brutal 1986 murder of Virgie Langford during a convenience store robbery in Palmetto, Florida.

An Arkansas death row inmate will have a hearing in August to determine if he can end his appeals against the advice of an ...

Melvin Trotter was executed by lethal injection for the 1986 murder of 70-year-old Virgie Langford, a mother of four on the verge of retirement.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 inmates with commuted death sentences ...

A judge who blocked the Trump administration from transferring former death row inmates said the criminals were convicted of ...

"It was like the joy of clemency all over again,” Rejon Taylor, whose death sentence was commuted by Joe Biden, told Newsweek ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 ex-death row inmates, granted clemency by former President Biden, to the most restrictive “supermax” prison in the ...