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

Adel Ramos was given a death penalty sentence for the killing of Sacramento police officer Tara O'Sullivan​ in June 2019, 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 ...

Darrell Robinson's conviction and death-penalty sentence have been affirmed by the Louisiana Supreme Court, and Rapides Parish District Attorney Phillip Terrell said his office would move ...

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 ...

(INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE) — The Indiana Attorney General’s Office requested an execution date on Friday for death row inmate Roy Lee Ward, the Spencer County man convicted in 2007 for the rape ...

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