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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

A federal judge in New York on Tuesday appointed a death penalty expert to the defense team of Luigi Mangione, the man ...

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

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

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

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