Molly Elliott's husband is speaking out for the first time in three decades as Jessie Hoffman's Louisiana execution, set for ...

Even as President Donald Trump and other national Republican leaders push to expand the use of capital punishment, some GOP-led states are moving in the opposite direction.

Convicted murderer John Fitzgerald Hanson was returned to Oklahoma Saturday from a federal prison in Louisiana to face ...

“There’s nothing in it that calls into question, ‘Should we have a death penalty or should we not?’ That is not the issue.

meaning a judge could decide that issue. Werkheiser, who has visited every state prison in Georgia and personally witnessed two executions, said he opposes the death penalty. But his bill wouldn ...

TAMPA — It’s been a decade since a 9-year-old girl vanished from Temple Terrace and was later found dead amid the rocks and ...

A death row inmate convicted of killing and raping an 8-year-old before murdering her grandmother in 1993 is asking Florida ...

because of the problems with lethal injection,” said John Banzhaf ... with the last one in 2010, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Five states including Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, ...

The death penalty “serves no useful purpose,” Powell ... Blackmun migrated to the Court’s left, frequently joining liberals on various issues. But Blackmun eventually became deeply concerned ...

A recently unsealed defense motion in the capital murder case against Bryan Kohberger offers the most detailed picture of the ...

It expects federal judges to respect state court rulings in certain death penalty case appeals unless those state courts ...

House of Reps has said that a bill to amend Nigeria’s Penal and Criminal Codes, aiming to abolish or reduce the use of the ...