The measure would remove the death penalty as a sentencing option, leaving life imprisonment without the possibility of ...

Prosecutors won't say why they withdrew their intent to seek the death penalty against a couple accused of murdering their ...

Mason was airlifted to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa, where he was diagnosed with swelling and severe bleeding of the brain.

Executions by firing squad are permitted in five states, but the new law will make Idaho the only state in which death by ...

Lebanon County District Attorney Pier Hess Graf has stated she will be seeking the death penalty for Alex Torres-Santos and Ivan Claudio-Rosero for homicide charges. Both men were allegedly involved ...

Alabama has set an execution date for an inmate who dropped his appeals this summer and asked to be put to death.

Maintaining a system that risks killing the innocent along with the guilty is itself a crime — and one that underscores the need to do away with capital punishment.

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

Molly Elliott's husband is speaking out for the first time in three decades as Jessie Hoffman's Louisiana execution, set for ...

Glenn Ford taught me that every chance for life matters. It was easy to see why: prosecutors told the court Glenn was innocent 30 years after he was wrongly convicted of murder and sent to Death Row.

Back in December, 42-year-old Richard Chambers was captured by law enforcement after an alleged killing spree.