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

Prosecutors won't say why they withdrew their intent to seek the death penalty against a couple accused of murdering their child in 2017.

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

The most recent U.S. execution took place Friday, when Brad Sigmon, 67, died by firing squad in South Carolina. Sigmon, who ...

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.

A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

Glenn Ford taught me that every chance for life matters. It was easy to see why: prosecutors told the court Glenn was innocent 30 years after he was wrongly convicted of murder and sent to Death Row.

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas. It was scheduled to take place next week ...

A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next ...

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...