A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Secretary of Defense can scrap plea agreements shielding three Sept. 11 ...

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in ...

Allegations that the 45-year-old was beaten with iron bars, weeks after being forcibly conscripted, have been denied by ...

Prison experts discuss how Bryan Kohberger's admission to the Idaho student murders might make him vulnerable in prison, where inmates serving life sentences have nothing to lose.

The last person to face the death penalty in Michigan was executed 87 years ago by the federal government. The 1938 execution ...

The high-profile assassination of a top Minnesota lawmaker and her husband​ could bring about a form of punishment long ...

Miami-Dade Commissioner Marleine Bastien responds to a child's assault at Gwen Cherry Park, promising community safety ...

Carlos Tito Caban, 51, has been indicted for the murder of a woman in a Port St. Lucie hotel, with state attorneys pushing ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi previously singled out the case as an example where federal prosectors could seek capital charges.

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.] As far ...

The recent anguish over the sentencing of an Indian nurse in Yemen must spark concerns about the death penalty, which is used ...

The amendment to remove capital punishment from Delaware’s Constitution must be voted on twice consecutively by lawmakers.