State lawmakers have taken up President Trump’s aggressive push to expand the use of the death penalty, setting up legislative and legal battles that could make a wider range of crimes subject to ...

The increase in executions is largely being driven by four states — Florida, Texas, Alabama and South Carolina — that have ...

Smithers' final appeal to halt his execution has reached the nation's highest court, one day after the Florida Supreme Court ...

Advocates of Charles Crawford call for Mississippi to stop plans to execute the 59-year-old inmate on death row.

This crime struck at the heart of our republic and has terrorized Americans from expressing their views in public. Like the assassination of President William McKinley by an anarchist on September 6, ...

The suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk appeared in court Tuesday charged with the conservative activist's murder, as prosecutors said they were seeking the death penalty for a crime that has ...

Luigi Mangione is fighting a federal death penalty charge in the murder of UHC CEO Brian Thompson. On Friday, his lawyers asked his judge to find the death penalty unconstitutional. The filing starts ...

A new effort to restart the death penalty in North Carolina, enact stricter rules for bail and ramp up monitoring of alleged criminals with mental health problems passed the state House of ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a man who's accused of sexually assaulting and killing his 11-year-old neighbor at their Pasadena apartments, according to court ...