Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

The world's longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government pay him more than $1.3 million in ...

The proposal would link capital punishment abolishment with prohibitions on state funding for abortion or physician-assisted ...

On Wednesday, Francisco Oropeza waived his rights to a jury trial and to appeal by pleading guilty to capital murder. In ...

Marion Bowman Jr. is set to be executed on Friday for the shooting death of Kandee Martin in 2001. Martin's body was found in ...

COIMBATORE: A special court in Coimbatore on Wednesday sentenced a 30-year-old man to death for murdering his brother and the ...

The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The number of new death sentences remained small by historical standards in ...

The proposal comes nearly seven years after Governor Mike DeWine called for a pause in executions shortly after taking office ...

THE only woman on death row in Oklahoma could snag a lighter sentence after her thong was paraded around in court by “sex-mad ...

Governor Ron DeSantis pledged to veto the recently passed immigration bill backed by Republicans in the legislature.

DeSean Brown, 25, faced a judge Wednesday in connection with the December 2020 deaths of 3-year-old Nylo Lattimore and ...