The attorney defending Richardson Dangleben Jr. is arguing that the U.S. Attorney’s notice that the office intends to seek the death penalty “should be struck as cruel and unusual,” but ...

A Dothan man who police claim sodomized and killed his ex-girlfriend’s teen daughter could be put to death if he is found guilty during his eventual trial. District Attorney Russ Goodman revealed ...

Prison experts discuss how Bryan Kohberger's admission to the Idaho student murders might make him vulnerable in prison, ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the trial court ruling, confirming Hampton's murder convictions and ...

Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya's death penalty was postponed on July 15. Yemen authorities deferred execution date after Indian government's appeal.

The new law makes assassination attempts on heads of state—including the president, vice president, any state governor, or ...

Defense attorneys for Teresa Youngblut file a motion against the DOJ's accelerated capital punishment process after Border ...

Carlos Tito Caban, 51, has been indicted for the murder of a woman in a Port St. Lucie hotel, with state attorneys pushing ...

If these people escaped the death penalty, you have to wonder: Who will suffer it? Here’s a reasonable guess: An ...

The amendment to remove capital punishment from Delaware’s Constitution must be voted on twice consecutively by lawmakers.

“Death penalty proponents have always said that the system is set up in a way to protect against government excess,” he told me, but there had never been an administration like Mr. Trump’s.

The death penalty is inextricably linked to a not-so-distant past of public lynchings of Black people in the US. As public lynchings began to decline in the beginning of the 20th century, ...