Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman is allowing county prosecutors to seek the death penalty again, reversing a ban ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (South Dakota Searchlight) – A U.S. Supreme Court case on regulatory rulemaking doesn’t give South Dakota’s only death row inmate a chance to renew and re-litigate the appeals that ...

When it comes to death row inmate Darrell Robinson, the Louisiana Supreme Court can't seem to make up its mind.

A federal court judge has denied Briley Wayne Piper's petition to to appeal his death sentence. The man remains on death row.

A retired judge poured over boxes of records, interviewed dozens of people at the many nexuses of state executions, and ...

Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for killing an off-duty Orangeburg police officer in Calhoun County, South Carolina.

Several protesters gathered outside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary praying for peace while convicted killer Wendell Arden Grissom, 56, was executed. Thursday, March 20, at 10:13 a.m. marks the first ...

The State of Florida on Thursday executed a death row inmate convicted of raping and killing an 8-year-old girl and then ...

While the men’s death warrants were signed before Donald Trump took office January 20, the state executioners and the US judiciary were certainly emboldened to see these executions through to ...

53-year-old convicted killer Aaron Brian Gunches was executed via lethal injection earlier this week, and his final meal has ...

Rafael Caro Quintero, who faces trial in Brooklyn, and at least four other drug cartel figures are vulnerable to the death ...