A documentary coming to Netflix later this year focuses on the “stand your ground" laws through the lens of an Ocala shooting. The documentary, titled “The Perfect Neighbor," tells the story of Ajike ...

A bill that would add another crime category for a jury to consider when administering the death penalty has passed its ...

Edward James, a Florida man convicted of killing a woman and raping and killing her 8-year-old-granddaughter in Seminole County in 1993, is set to be executed on March 20.

Even as President Donald Trump and other national Republican leaders push to expand the use of capital punishment, some GOP-led states are moving in the opposite direction.

Wendell Grissom’s execution is set despite claims of brain damage, as Oklahoma’s death penalty law faces scrutiny over its ...

March 10 (UPI) -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the death warrant for a 48-year-old man convicted of kidnapping and ...

Supreme Court Justices Powell, Blackmun, and Stevens allowed the death penalty to return. Then they disavowed it.

Under current law, a defendant must prove their disability beyond a reasonable doubt — a high standard that’s unique to Georgia.

Idaho has had firing squad executions on the books as a ... s remaining death row inmate could be executed by hanging if ...

GauZ grew up in Côte d'Ivoire before moving to Paris as an undocumented student. He worked briefly as a security guard in the French city before returning to his home country. He has stood for ...

They can’t get qualified medical professionals to do it,” Lain, the author of the upcoming book “Secrets of the ... his life ever since he went to death row,” King said.