Bryan Kohberger is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday to all counts in the killings of four University of Idaho students, ...

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) on Tuesday commuted the sentences of all 17 people on the state’s death row, changing their punishment from execution to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Oregon voters put the death penalty into the Constitution when they were allowed to do so because of the U.S. Supreme Court and that people should take it out as opposed to a de facto repeal ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi previously singled out the case as an example where federal prosectors could seek capital charges.

The Oregon Death Penalty Cost Analysis report was funded by the Oregon Justice Resource Center, a Portland-based nonprofit, and written by Professor Aliza Kaplan from Lewis & Clark Law School, ...

He admitted to the slayings before entering a formal guilty plea in a deal with prosecutors that will allow him to avoid the ...

Washington, Arizona, and Oregon in 1919-20 reinstated the death penalty. In 1924, the first execution by cyanide gas took place in Nevada, when Tong war gang murderer Gee Jon became its first victim.

The high-profile assassination of a top Minnesota lawmaker and her husband​ could bring about a form of punishment long ...

Minnesota abolished the death penalty in 1911 and there are few examples of it being pursued for crimes in the state.

Gavin Newsom still has a year and a half left in office, but advocates are starting their call now for him to commute, or ...

A South Carolina man convicted of a 2005 double murder was put to death by lethal injection on Friday, the fourth execution in the United States this week. Stanko was the fourth Death Row inmate ...