The proposal would link capital punishment abolishment with prohibitions on state funding for abortion or physician-assisted ...

North Carolina is still feeling the adverse impact of the mandatory death penalty prosecution law, despite its repeal. | ...

On Wednesday, Francisco Oropeza waived his rights to a jury trial and to appeal by pleading guilty to capital murder. In ...

Vacaville police officers testified that Raymond Michael Weber was a human trafficker who used romance to recruit a victim ...

COIMBATORE: A special court in Coimbatore on Wednesday sentenced a 30-year-old man to death for murdering his brother and the ...

Governor Ron DeSantis pledged to veto the recently passed immigration bill backed by Republicans in the legislature.

THE only woman on death row in Oklahoma could snag a lighter sentence after her thong was paraded around in court by “sex-mad ...

DeSean Brown, 25, faced a judge Wednesday in connection with the December 2020 deaths of 3-year-old Nylo Lattimore and ...

The support behind reintroducing capital punishment is mostly being driven by millennials, with three in five (58 per cent) backing the idea, with a quarter (27 per cent) against.

The proposal comes nearly seven years after Governor Mike DeWine called for a pause in executions shortly after taking office ...

Family members and advocates have asked Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to intervene in a death penalty case set to move ...

The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The number of new death sentences remained small by historical standards in ...