The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.

Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 execution. In Nashville’s ...

Bryan Kohberger appeared expressionless as a judge asked if he murdered four Idaho college students in their off-campus home, ...

A man who killed a store clerk during a robbery at an Alabama convenience store in 1997 now knows when he will put to ...

A woman tied to a Zizian cult who was charged in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont wants to delay the ...

A preacher from the Sure Foundation Baptist Church in Indianapolis said LGBTQ+ people "deserve the death penalty." ...

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To combat the drug problem, Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa has filed a bill that seeks to impose the death penalty on those ...

Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen, who fervently sought Richard Farley’s sentence reduction, just walked away.