The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that a Memphis judge did not have the authority to give a man formerly on death row ...

The man accused of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses -- two fatally -- is now in federal custody on murder ...

The suspected killer of a Minnesota lawmaker could face the death penalty, US prosecutors said Monday as they revealed ...

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s ...

Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of Nungaray's death. The 12-year-old Houston girl was allegedly killed by two ...

I’m looking forward to getting the last pieces of paperwork that say he’s been executed to put into the book and never having ...

Corinna Lane, a former prosecutor, discusses the flaws in the US death penalty system, the pharmaceutical crisis that halted lethal injection, and the humanity of those on death row in her book ...

In nearly 350 death penalty cases Maricopa County prosecutors pursued over 20 years, just 13% ended in a death sentence. The ...

A man with two death sentences chose lethal injection after attorneys referenced a problematic firing squad case. Lawyers ...

Scott Panetti had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, paranoid delusions, depression and insomnia. His case made it to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Oklahoma prosecutors say they will retry longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip a third time for his role in the 1997 ...