Prosecutors will not be seeking the death penalty against a mother, son and caregiver accused of deliberately torturing a ...

Abolitionists will have to play defense at the federal level, and plot a long-term strategy for ending the death penalty in ...

FBI handout Federal prosecutors might soon charge a Fort Lauderdale man with killing his estranged wife in Spain on top of ...

Attorneys for a man charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students asked a judge to take the death ...

Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump signaled he would resume federal executions if he won and make more ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-tenured death row inmate, filed court documents asking for post-conviction ...

Many are asking what’s next after accused killer Alysia Adams ripped up her plea deal in Caddo County on Wednesday.

South Carolina will not carry out any more executions until at least January, the state Supreme Court ruled in a Thursday ...

Karen Conti, Chicago trial attorney, joins Bob Sirott to discuss what could happen next concerning President-elect Donald ...

Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins testified in support of the state’s death penalty during a Senate Judiciary ...

The Texas Supreme Court is considering whether a legislative subpoena of a death row inmate infringed on the executive branch ...