The executions in Alabama, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas will mark the first time in more than 20 years that ...

Three seats on the Ohio Supreme Court are on the Nov. 5 ballot with Republicans, who’ve controlled the court for almost 40 years, seeking to expand their majority while Democrats seek to gain it. The ...

The unusually high number of executions defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Death row inmates in five states are scheduled to be put to death in the span of one week, an unusually ...

Across the U.S., including in some of the nation’s presidential swing states, new or recently altered state laws are changing ...

A Texas man with a long history of mental illness who has repeatedly sought to waive his right to appeal his death sentence ...

The Supreme Court of the United States Monday officially intervened in the 3 1/2-year legal odyssey in which the National ...

Williams is set to be executed at 6 p.m. Tuesday for the 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle, who was repeatedly stabbed during a ...

The Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation has filed an amicus curiae brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, to support the ...

WORLD - International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons SHIZUOKA (Japan) - Verdict in retrial of Iwao Hakamada, who spent 46 years on death row VIDEO. PICTURE. HONG KONG (China) - ...

One recent Supreme Court decision is already rippling through dozens of key lower court cases involving everything from ...

In Alameda County, prosecutors kept Black and Jewish people off juries to increase the likelihood of a death penalty ...