Mark Sievers returns to Lee County court to challenge his death sentence for orchestrating his wife Dr. Teresa Sievers' 2015 ...

Governor Tate Reeves (R-Miss.) announced the execution of a Mississippi death row inmate will proceed this month. Officials ...

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 ...

Gov. Mike Kehoe denied clemency Monday to Lance Shockley, a man sentenced to be executed at 6 p.m. Tuesday, citing Shockley’s unanimous conviction by jury for the 2005 murder of Missouri State Highway ...

The execution for Mississippi death row inmate Charles Ray Crawford is scheduled for Oct. 15, pending a last-minute stay from ...

A South Carolina inmate who spent 42 years on death row has died of natural causes at a prison hospital. Fred Singleton was ...

Victims of the inmates include a family of four, a college student kidnapped from her bedroom, and a state trooper who was ...

Days after Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered Justice Department officials to pursue capital punishment more broadly, Mairead ...

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves will not step in to stop the execution of a man convicted of raping and killing a college ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Donna Adelson was officially sentenced to life in prison Monday afternoon in the murder for hire ...

On June 30, deputies from the Denver Sheriff Department responded to an overnight call for help in the agency’s Downtown Detention Center. They found a man — later identified as 34-year-old Vincent ...

The family of the late Bilyaminu Bello has condemned the presidential pardon granted to his wife, Maryam Sanda, who was ...