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 ...

The increase in executions is largely being driven by four states — Florida, Texas, Alabama and South Carolina — that have ...

Execution Blocked - A court blocks the execution of Robert Roberson.  It comes as the Death Row inmate is receiving renewed support from a bipartisan group of lawmakers in his calls for a new trial.

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

Rio Tinto is preparing to make a final call on the future of the Tomago aluminium smelter and its more than a thousand ...

With these carried out, Indiana has five inmates remaining on death row. Who are these individuals, and what were their crimes? William Gibson is on death row for the murders of Karen Hodella, ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has rescheduled the execution of Lisa Montgomery, a convicted murderer and the only woman on federal death row, to take place on Jan. 12, a few days before Joe Biden is ...

This was an utter embarrassment that marks the end of any pretense that we still adhere to the mythical “Virginia Way” in our civic discourse.

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 ...

Ralph Baze has spent more than three decades in the Kentucky State Penitentiary, convicted of killing Powell County Sheriff ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called for the temperature of political debate in Australia to be “turned down” following a death threat allegedly made against him by a Queensland man. Norman Dean ...