The state's highest court upheld a law transferring more control of death penalty cases from local district attorneys to the ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill asked a federal appeals court to halt a district judge's decision to reopen a case ...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the Texas death penalty case against Ruben Gutierrez on Monday. Gutierrez was ...

A Vermont man may soon be facing the federal death penalty for allegedly killing two Massachusetts men — including one from ...

Authorities have charged a Central Florida man with murder after he allegedly fatally shot a father of five because of the ...

Elon Musk’s Ki-Chatbot once again caused a stir: In an answer, Grok suggested that Musk and Donald Trump deserve the death ...

Several Supreme Court justices worried that a low-profile death penalty appeal could upend fundamental judicial principles.

A Scranton man will spend the rest of his life in prison for shooting a man in the city’s Hill Section. Lackawanna County ...

JACKSON – Attorneys for death row inmate Charles Ray Crawford want the state’s highest court to hear oral arguments in the latest appeal of his 30-year-old capital murder conviction and death sentence ...

President Donald Trump is again promoting his support for executing people who sell currently illicit drugs, calling it a ...

The justices heard arguments in the case of a man on death row in Texas who claims DNA testing could spare his life.

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been charged with treason, in an escalation of legal troubles stemming from ...