The state of Alabama has a complicated relationship with science, and its criminal courts are no exception. Often, state ...

A former federal prosecutor said a media leak in the Bryan Kohberger murder case has the potential to take the death penalty ...

Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...

A Harrisburg man potentially facing the death penalty just fired his public defender and told a judge he would represent ...

Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith represented dozens of inmates on Death Row and claims he watched an innocent man die - and that ...

This is the third time Todd Kelvin Wessinger's death sentence was vacated and remanded back to state court for a new trial ...

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

Two suspects in a 2021 home invasion murder will not be facing the death penalty after being indicted by a grand jury.

California currently has 574 individuals on death row, the most in the nation, while being the most populous U.S. state.

His lawyers have said there was no physical or forensic evidence connecting him to a fatal stabbing decades ago.

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 ...