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

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

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.

An Indian nurse who is on death row in war-torn Yemen is set to be executed on 16 July, campaigners working to save her have ...

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

I can’t think of anybody else I’d rather have doing this case,” another longtime county prosecutor and friend to Bill ...

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

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