When Deborah Gonzalez ran to be elected District Attorney of Georgia’s Western Judicial Circuit in 2020, she made no bones ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Executions will resume in Arizona following a two-year pause, the state’s top prosecutor says.

An awkward national spotlight turns toward Terre Haute whenever federal death penalty cases arise. Such moments have been ...

Augusta University student Laken Riley's murderer was sentenced to life in prison, but he should have been given the death ...

Three Americans, including a man who was facing the death penalty, have been freed by China in a prisoner swap with the US. 'We are pleased to announce the release of Mark Swidan, Kai Li and John ...

Bryan Kohberger faces a trial next summer in which prosecutors want the option to put him to death for the killings of four ...

A judge has ruled that the death penalty will remain a possibility for a man charged with murder in the stabbing deaths of ...

Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022, can face the death penalty, a judge has ruled. Kohberger's defense team had sought to remove the death ...

TEXAS - A Central Texas lawmaker is making a push to get the state to abolish the death penalty. Williamson County State Rep.

Iran continues to force confessions, execute individuals who committed crimes as minors and subject detainees to torture in ...

An awkward national spotlight turns toward Terre Haute whenever federal death penalty cases arise. Such moments have been rare for most of the past 31 years, except for one unusual period. And, with ...