On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

A former federal prosecutor said a media leak in the Bryan Kohberger murder case has the potential to take the death penalty ...

A Sacramento judge on Friday formally imposed the death penalty for Adel Ramos, who pleaded guilty to the ambush killing of ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...

A Harrisburg man potentially facing the death penalty just fired his public defender and told a judge he would represent ...

The court had earlier vacated Darrell Robinson's conviction and death sentence in a brutal quadruple murder in Rapides Parish ...

The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed ...

The longest-serving death row inmate in Mississippi's history, Richard Jordan, was executed Wednesday evening at the ...

After four trials, 79-year-old Richard Gerald Jordan was executed in Mississippi for the 1976 murder of Edwina Marter, a ...

Vietnam will remove the death penalty for eight offences from next month, including embezzlement and activities aimed at ...

Vietnam has lifted the death penalty for eight crimes in legal reforms that may spare the life of a real estate tycoon ...

Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...