The recent clemency and pardon granted to about 175 persons for various offences has continued to elicit reactions from ...

State lawmakers have taken up President Donald 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 ...

But the 12 jurors took less than five hours behind closed doors Wednesday to come up with their verdict, convicting the ...

A man who shot and killed a Nassau County deputy during a traffic stop in 2021, and who was sentenced to death last year, was ...

Rocha was already found guilty of murder in connection with the shooting death of North Kansas City police officer Daniel ...

The U.S. has seen 35 executions so far in 2025, with seven more scheduled for later this month. This year's total already ...

The law provides that if the state’s current method, lethal injection, is found to be unconstitutional or is unable to be administered, the N.C. Department of Adult Correction “must select another ...

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

A Tunisian court released a man on Tuesday who had been sentenced to death just last week for Facebook posts criticising the president, following a wave of public criticism and human rights concerns ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A 39-year-old man was sentenced this week to four years behind bars after pleading guilty to threatening to blow up the U.S. Supreme Court building and for sending what he claimed was ...

Attorneys for Steven Bixby have filed a formal notice of appeal challenging a recent ruling that found him mentally competent ...

A person in black is seen after jumping off a Utah Valley University building roof in a screen grab from a handout video. (FBI/Reuters) Court documents filed Friday gave possible clues to how Charlie ...