For the past several weeks, a major challenge to Kansas’ death penalty has been underway in a Wyandotte County murder case.

Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

Anne Taylor asked the judge in a slew of motions to remove capital punishment as an option using the same legal playbook that ...

A lethal injection expert has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to deny the attorney general's request for an execution warrant ...

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

Palm Beach County prosecutors want to seek the death penalty in the November 2021 fatal stabbing of Ryan Rogers, 14, of Palm Beach Gardens.

Two federal prisoners who are among 37 inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by Biden say they are refusing ...

Prosecutors say they are planning to seek the death penalty for the man charged with killing two people and injuring several ...

Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis have filed emergency petitions seeking to block the commutations of their death sentences.

Robert Roberson’s case only scratches the surface of the multitude of faults that permeate this system of death in Texas.

A man accused of murdering two people in a Northeast Nebraska town could still get the death penalty after the latest ruling ...

The men said that, by reducing their sentences to life in prison, President Biden’s act of clemency could hurt their appeals.