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 ...

Under Biden, officials decided not to seek capital punishment against two D.C. teens charged in a deadly carjacking. The ...

Community members came together to protest the death penalty as the conversation ramps up over its legality in North Carolina ...

Three suspects were arrested after police found over $4,000 worth of stolen merchandise in Irvine. The suspects were ...

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

For centuries, capital punishment has been instated in a variety of different countries and states within the United States.

The Office of the Ohio Public Defender is finding itself at odds with the state attorney general and some Republican lawmakers as the former argues against adding nitrogen hypoxia as a legal means of ...