An Arizona death row prisoner has asked the state’s highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier than authorities were aiming for ...

A Dadeville jury sentences Derek Hightower of Columbus, Georgia, to death for the brutal murders of Willie and Barbara ...

South Carolina’s Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state’s next execution after allowing a pause for the Christmas ...

India is closely monitoring the case of Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, sentenced to death in Yemen for murder. The government is ...

Gov. Roy Cooper commutes the sentences of 15 convicted killers on death row, including three former Forsyth County residents, ...

Hightower killed Willie Tidwell, 61, and Barbara Tidwell, 65, in their home in April 2020. Court records state the couple was murdered while the defendant trying to steal two firearms and prescription ...

Saudi Arabia has put six Iranians to death for drug trafficking, the interior ministry said Wednesday, after a year in which ...

Military prosecutors and defense attorneys reached the plea agreements after two years of government-approved negotiations.

Brian Lyman’s “Alabama’s death penalty depends on darkness” (Dec. 22) provides a chilling example of how woke hyperbole ...