The bill is now meant to give more protections to federal officers, judges and federally funded public safety officers, who ...

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in ...

Thirty years ago, the film “Dead Man Walking” had its debut in movie theaters around the United States. It was a box office ...

I can’t think of anybody else I’d rather have doing this case,” another longtime county prosecutor and friend to Bill ...

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

While the state leads the nation in executions, 100 Florida faith leaders call on DeSantis to pause what they call ...

LUCKNOW: A district court in Auraiyya, central Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday awarded capital punishment to a woman named ...

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

Not a single jury in Oklahoma has issued a new death sentence in the past three years, a sign that public opinion has changed ...

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

Reforms have been implemented in Texas and other states to avoid mistakes that send innocent people to death row. However, ...

Trying to end capital punishment state-by-state was difficult at best, so death penalty abolitionists turned much of their efforts to the courts. They finally succeeded on June 29, 1972 in the ...