Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation that would allow child rapists to be sentenced to death as some Republicans ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it ...

Ford was convicted of murdering Kimberly and Gregory Malnory, whose toddler daughter was found covered in her mother's blood ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced she will direct the DOJ to pursue the death penalty at the state level against the ...

A federal judge in New York on Tuesday appointed a death penalty expert to the defense team of Luigi Mangione, the man ...

In a 120-page order, Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermons also ruled that race was “a significant factor” in other death ...

The man accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson gets a free death penalty expert under federal law and will ...

Arizona, which has 112 prisoners on death row, last carried out three executions in 2022 following a nearly eight-year hiatus ...

Prosecutors have been given Idaho student murders suspect Bryan Kohberger's medical and mental health records, newly unsealed ...

The debate on whether the death penalty deters and lowers rates of crime is a long-simmering one, with both sides variously ...

The death penalty has been withdrawn in the case of a Kentucky mom charged in her daughter’s death. A judge signed an order ...