The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday declined to grant a new trial to a man convicted for orchestrating a pair of 20-year-old ...

Source: 29 death row inmates resentenced – herald Tanyaradzwa Rusike TWENTY-NINE former death row inmates have been ...

California's death penalty system has been shown to be racially discriminatory, with Black and Latino defendants up to 8.7 ...

After all, as the 20th state to ban or suspend capital punishment, Washington remains in the minority. And the state’s highest court did not rule the death penalty illegal in and of itself ...

State Attorney R.J. Larizza announced plans to seek the death penalty against Dimeco Henderson, marking the first death penalty prosecution for a sexual assault case in Florida’s seventh judicial ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi will make the decision whether to seek a death sentence against Vance Boelter. He is being ...

Florida Gov. DeSantis on pace to break death penalty record with execution of mistaken-identity killer Michael Bell - The ...

Most in New York state know that there hasn't been an execution here in many years. But just how long ago was the last ...

The decision whether to seek a death sentence against Vance Boelter will ultimately lie in the hands of the Trump administration’s attorney general, a vocal supporter of capitol punishment. Federal ...

Capital punishment is a priority of the Trump administration, with the Deep South at the epicenter. We talk with our criminal justice reporter Kat Stromquist about the new method Alabama pioneered.

The man charged with killing a prominent Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another could face something that is a rarity for Minnesota but could become more common under the Trump administration: the ...

It’s not unheard of for state and federal prosecutors to both pursue criminal cases for the same offense, especially in ...