For the past several weeks, a major challenge to Kansas’ death penalty has been underway in a Wyandotte County murder case.

Palm Beach County prosecutors want to seek the death penalty in the November 2021 fatal stabbing of Ryan Rogers, 14, of Palm ...

Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

Anne Taylor asked the judge in a slew of motions to remove capital punishment as an option using the same legal playbook that ...

The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.

Calvin Crew, accused of kidnapping and killing an Uber driver in Monroeville, will not face the death penalty.

A lethal injection expert has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to deny the attorney general's request for an execution warrant ...

Two federal prisoners who are among 37 inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by Biden say they are refusing ...

Prosecutors say they are planning to seek the death penalty for the man charged with killing two people and injuring several ...

Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis have filed emergency petitions seeking to block the commutations of their death sentences.

Zimbabwe hasn’t executed anyone who was sentenced to death since 2005. With the passing of the Death Penalty Abolition Act ...

Aaron Gunches asked the Arizona Supreme Court to issue an expedited execution warrant for him more than a decade after he was ...