On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

A former federal prosecutor said a media leak in the Bryan Kohberger murder case has the potential to take the death penalty ...

A Sacramento judge on Friday formally imposed the death penalty for Adel Ramos, who pleaded guilty to the ambush killing of ...

The court had earlier vacated Darrell Robinson's conviction and death sentence in a brutal quadruple murder in Rapides Parish ...

A Harrisburg man potentially facing the death penalty just fired his public defender and told a judge he would represent ...

Vietnam has lifted the death penalty for eight crimes in legal reforms that may spare the life of a real estate tycoon ...

For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman ...

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

Sentencing will happen Friday for the man who ambushed and murdered Sacramento Police Department Officer Tara O'Sullivan.