The lawyers asked a federal judge to drop some charges, including the only one eligible for the death penalty.

North Carolina has 122 inmates on death row – the nation’s fifth largest – but hasn’t carried out an execution since Samuel Flippen was put to death by lethal injection on Aug. 18, 2006. Since then, ...

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 ...

Two Republican lawmakers want to expand Ohio’s hate crime definition to include politically motivated murders.

The U.S. has seen 34 executions so far in 2025, with eight more scheduled for later this year, including seven this month ...

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 ...