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 ...

As a Virginia family’s four-decade wait for justice ended with a man who killed a mother of two in 1986 receiving multiple life sentences, another victim’s family was in court to witness it.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate who spent 42 years on death row has died of natural causes at a prison hospital ...

The Louisiana Attorney General has joined 20 other attorneys general to overturn the Supreme Court decision which bans the ...