As a state prosecutor and district attorney, I became keenly aware that the death penalty does not serve victims or our ...

Promotion of the death penalty is a critical component of Trump’s bid to establish a presidential dictatorship. It is part of ...

Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "Sunday morning, America woke to the horrific news that a New York criminal had set fire to ...

A politician who represents Georgia suggested a migrant accused of setting a woman on fire on the New York City subway should ...

A judge has ruled that prosecutors can seek the death penalty against a Rural Hall man accused of killing his girlfriend in ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — U.S. Senator Joe Manchin says President Joe Biden should not have commuted the death sentences of Chad ...

Kevin Dowling, 66, was convicted of killing art gallery owner Jennifer Myers in 1997 and given the death penalty. He's seeking a new trial in the case.

The Tennessee Department of Corrections says they have now completed a comprehensive review of the lethal injection protocol.

President Joe Biden announced he would commute the death sentences of 37 of the 40 total federal prisoners on death row.

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Dec. 23 The Washington Post on President Biden's commutation of death sentences ...

BEIJING (AP) — A court in China has sentenced a man to death for killing 35 people last month by driving into a crowd, in an ...

Sebastian Zapeta, 33, was arrested following the harrowing incident on Sunday morning on a stopped F train at Brooklyn’s ...