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 ...

The impasse resulted in an automatic life sentence for Con-ui because current law requires a unanimous decision by the jury ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

South Carolina inmate Brad Keith Sigmon was executed by firing squad March 7 for killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents, David ...

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.

I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty,” Brad ...

JUST INTO THE NEWSROOM, THE MAN ACCUSED OF A DEADLY KIDNAPING AND MURDER IS IN FEDERAL COURT IN NEW ORLEANS RIGHT NOW. A JUDGE TRYING TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT HE’S COMPETENT TO STAND TRIAL. WDSU ...