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

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

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

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

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

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

Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival, xAI, says it’s investigating why its Grok AI chatbot suggested that both President Donald Trump and ...

Luigi Mangione, accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024, is set to stand trial in New York, ...

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

Bondi is moving quickly to reverse Biden administration policies, and right at the top of her list is the federal death penalty, which Biden opposed. The Biden Justice Department imposed a ...

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

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...