death penalty

Navajo Nation leaders say their sovereignty has been violated with the execution Wednesday of a tribal member by the U-S government. Lezmond Mitchell was…

The only Native American on federal death row was executed Wednesday at the prison in Terre Haute, Ind.Navajo tribal member Lezmond Mitchell’s execution…

The only Native American on federal death row is set to die at an Indiana prison for slaying a 9-year-old and her grandmother. Many Navajos are hoping for…

Attorneys for the only Native American man on federal death row are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a decision from a lower court regarding…

A judge has rejected a bid from the only Native American on death row to push back his execution date. U.S. District Judge David Campbell in Arizona…

Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez has asked President Donald Trump to commute the death sentence of a Navajo man convicted in the 2001 killing of a…

The only Native American on federal death row has lost a bid to look into potential racial bias in his case. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had put…

A sharply divided Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for an Arizona inmate who was convicted of killing two people in home burglaries nearly 30…

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal Wednesday from an Arizona death row inmate who is seeking a sentencing retrial in two 1991 killings. James…

A federal appeals court has stayed the execution of a Navajo man convicted of the murder of a 63-year-old fellow tribal member and her 9-year-old…