After two years of reviewing and improving Arizona’s death penalty procedures, the state says it can resume the lethal ...

Arizona is on track to restart executions as early as just a couple of months, the Attorney General’s Office said on Tuesday.

The Mississippi attorney general is requesting an execution date for a man who’s been on death row for 30 years.

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

Anti-death penalty advocates fear Supreme Court may change how life circumstances are considered in capital cases. Concerns ...

House Democrats and anti-death penalty advocates pressed last Wednesday for President Joe Biden to save the lives of federal ...

As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, a lot of ink has already been — and will continue to be — spilled urging Biden to do ...

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

The measures, if they are ordered, threaten to upend a business expected to generate more than $300 billion in revenue this ...

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 ...

President-elect Donald Trump's pick for U.S. attorney general had some controversies during her time as Florida's attorney general.

Susan Smith murdered her sons Michael, 3, and Alex, 14 months, in 1994 when she let a car with the boys roll into a lake. Prosecutors said Smith was trying to start a new relationship with a man who ...