Kohberger will avoid the death penalty by pleading guilty to the murders of four University of Idaho students. He’ll serve life without parole and waive all appeals, ensuring finality. But the deal ...

A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

The Delaware General Assembly has passed the first leg of a constitutional amendment to permanently abolish the death penalty ...

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

Every year thousands of people globally are wrongly accused of witchcraft, often with fatal consequences yet, says new ...

If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson ...

The change reflects growing recognition within the Vietnamese legislative system that capital punishment is not a ...

THE CLOCK IS TICKING. Gov. Gavin Newsom still has a year and a half left in office, but advocates are starting their call now for him to commute, or reduce, all death sentences in ...

In Nasarawa, the state kidnapping prohibition bill signed into law in 2020 by Governor Abdullahi Sule stipulates the death ...

On the 19th anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty in the Philippines, a human rights coalition is calling on ...

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA ...

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence.