Oregon settled for $1.9 million with Frank Gable after he was convicted and later exonerated for the killing of the state’s prison chief in 1989.

In the 25 years since the Columbine massacre, twisted people hoping to get their message out have used the legal system to gain 'internet notoriety' and spread their warped world views ...

Only three other defendants had been executed by firing squad in the country since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Sigmon’s execution was the sixth in the U.S. so far in 2025.

However, between 1917 and 1955, the death penalty abolition movement again slowed. Washington, Arizona, and Oregon in 1919-20 reinstated the death penalty. In 1924, the first execution by cyanide ...

The action comes on the heels of the first U.S. execution by firing squad in nearly 15 years last week in South Carolina.

Richard Tabler shared his final words before he was executed by lethal injection in Texas on Thursday. The death penalty is a legal form of criminal punishment in 27 states. Governors in California, ...

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

James Dennis Ford, a convicted killer on death row since 1999, did not share any final words before he was executed by lethal injection in Florida on Thursday. The death penalty is a legal form of ...