A memo directs DOJ staff to pursue the death penalty for undocumented immigrants who have been charged with capital crimes, ...

Prosecutors have been given Idaho student murders suspect Bryan Kohberger's medical and mental health records, newly unsealed ...

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

Attorneys for the state said they planned to appeal the superior court judge’s ruling to the NC Supreme Court.

Sublette County Attorney Clayton Melinkovich said he hasn’t ruled out seeking the death penalty for two Big Piney men charged ...

A North Carolina judge ruled Friday that a Black defendant’s capital trial was undermined by allegations of racial bias ...

A proposal to give prosecutors the option of seeking the death penalty in child rape cases cleared a state House committee in ...

Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital ...

A state medical examiner testifying in the capital murder murder trial of Hunter Nolan Chenoweth Friday morning said he was ...

The jury was sent home for the weekend and will return on Monday to hear closing arguments before beginning deliberations.

Bacote spent 15 years on death row before former Governor Roy Cooper commuted his sentence to life without parole in December ...

Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...