Rastogi says the grounds for commuting a death penalty to life imprisonment includes a jail conduct report, a psychological ...

Three years after Colorado lawmakers repealed the death penalty, the state Supreme Court has clarified that defendants accused of crimes formerly subject to capital punishment are now eligible to be ...

Loran Cole, 57, was set to be executed in Florida on Thursday for the 1994 murder of 18-year-old Florida State University freshman John Edwards and the sexual assault of his 21-year-old sister. Cole ...

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that his administration will seek the death penalty in all murder cases in Washington, DC, a move that could collide with longstanding city law and ...

America made big strides in 2019 on its path to dismantle the racist, unfair, and inhumane death penalty. Today, dramatically fewer states permit the death penalty than any time in the modern era, and ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s Republican attorney general put his weight behind a legislative effort Tuesday to bring nitrogen gas executions to the state, joining what could be a national movement in ...

In the Jan. 17 left-right debate on capital punishment, Charles Stimson of the Heritage Foundation began his essay by trotting out an exemplary “look what they did” story, which spared none of the ...

Oklahoma voters reaffirmed their support of capital punishment Tuesday with the passage of State Question 776, which adds a section to the state constitution saying the all death penalty statutes are ...

The Tarrant County DA's office DA recently waived the death penalty for the men indicted in the killings of G$ Lil Ronnie and ...