The Supreme Court agreed with a lower court's ruling that a Mississippi man's conviction and death penalty must be overturned ...

On the first anniversary of Morrow County Sheriff's deputy Daniel Weston Sherrer's death, the man who killed him faced the ...

The case, a direct appeal to the state highest court, says the death penalty is unconstitutional because it is applied in a ...

Gilday's defense attorney openly sobbed during his closing remarks, saying that his client deserved a second chance.

Lake County prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a 41-year-old man indicted by a grand jury this week on dozens of ...

Prosecutors can try seeking the death penalty again. But if a second jury also deadlocks, Ian Mitcham will automatically receive a life sentence.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Billy Mitchell in a 2025 Haskell County double murder. The case is ...

Death penalty cases often take years before they go to trial in Arizona. After a guilty verdict, the appeals and execution ...

The justices' order ends a two-year watch on a petition that death penalty opponents filed directly with the state high court ...

Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on The Constitution, joined the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act, bicameral legislation led by Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dick ...

The majority dismissed on procedural grounds the case of Joseph Clifton Smith, whose mental faculties skirt the threshold for ...

Mohamed Soliman's family is appealing a deportation order and his lawyers say they need to stay in the U.S. to testify at any future trial. The family is facing a deportation order, but could be ...