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 ...

Donna Adelson, the matriarch behind the 2014 murder-for-hire of Dan Markel, is set to be sentenced to life in prison in a ...

Confronting a national tragedy, thoughtful leaders need to maintain a degree of perspective. It is fitting to express disapproval, and to share sympathy with those impacted. But one shouldn’t be ...

The cenotaph in memory of Robert Badinter, a former justice minister who campaigned for an end to capital punishment and ...

Here's when, where and how Roy Lee Ward, the killer of Spencer County girl Stacy Payne, will be executed this week.

On October 9, the Bangladesh authorities filed charges against 28 people for enforced disappearances, secret detention, and ...

Attorneys for the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk would like their client to appear at all upcoming hearings in regular ...

Just days before his execution, Roberson said he is optimistic he will get a chance to prove his innocence with a new trial ...

A second suspect was remanded in custody on Tuesday after being detained by police in Pakistan following the gang rape of a woman that has led to protests across the country.

Indiana will put to death a man who was convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of a teenage girl, the state’s third execution ...

An international conference was held Saturday in London to announce a new initiative by dozens of European and other ...

John Driskell Hopkins, part of Atlanta country act Zac Brown Band, was diagnosed with ALS in 2022 and created a nonprofit that has raised $4 million for ALS research.