Prosecutors in Arizona are seeking to execute a prisoner in what would be the state’s first use of the death penalty after a ...

The death penalty is arbitrary, capricious, more expensive than non-capital incarcerations and poisoned by racial bias. The ...

Slaying of four people at Kansas City, Kansas, bar prompts constitutional challenge to Kansas' jury selection method in death ...

There are a lot of reasons that the death penalty is almost never imposed anymore. As a growing cadre of experts has ...

If Biden’s federal death row commutations had been based on principle, they would have been made right away when Biden took ...

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

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

In an unusual court proceeding that began in October, the ACLU and other attorneys asserted that Kansas' death penalty law ...

Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing two people and injuring six more in a mass ...

Googie Harris Sr. also helped send an innocent man to prison for 20 years in the case. Co-defendant Joaquin Leal gets life in ...

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

An appeal from a convicted killer in the 1990 murders of a Cape Coral girl and her babysitter is heading to the Florida ...