If it seems like death penalty cases drag out in the courts already, new legislation introduced on Thursday would ensure that ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - First Alert 6 has the headlines you need to know to get your Thursday started. One person is in the hospital after a cutting in Omaha early Thursday. Omaha Police officers were ...

Abdul-Salaam was convicted in the fatal shooting of New Cumberland police officer Willis Cole during a robbery at a coin shop ...

If all executions scheduled through March 20 take place, nine people will have been executed in the first three months of the ...

The 2025 legislative session is in full swing at the Idaho Statehouse in Boise and Governor Little just signed one of the most intriguing bills into law.

Johnson has been on death row since 1998 when he was convicted of capital murder for the death of Jefferson County Deputy ...

Louisiana has hit a roadblock in its plan to resume executions after a 15-year pause. At issue is the method -- death by nitrogen gas -- an which has been used only a handful of times in Alabama and ...

Idaho will become the only state to fatally shoot death row inmates as its main execution method. Idaho Gov. Brad Little on ...

Maintaining a system that risks killing the innocent along with the guilty is itself a crime — and one that underscores the need to do away with capital punishment.

The action comes on the heels of the first U.S. execution by firing squad in nearly 15 years last week in South Carolina.