Fewer Americans support capital punishment. Fewer courts are handing out death sentences. And we’ve got way more executions ...

While Ohio has joined a few other states in pausing executions, the number of people put to death nationwide so far this year ...

Explore the terrifying 1973 crime spree of Willie Steelman and Douglas Gretzler, who murdered 17 people across Arizona and ...

A 58-year-old Florida death row inmate claimed that prison officials used expired drugs and skimped on the doses for the last ...

ROME -- Pope Leo XIV criticized prison overcrowding and insufficient inmate rehabilitation programs on Sunday as he ...

A local felon charged in a November 2022 shooting that resulted in the victim's leg having to be amputated was sentenced to ...

University of Arkansas prof under fire for praising Iranian leader, and using school resources to support Iranian regime war ...

Lawyers for a man set to be put to death next week in Georgia argue that an agreement entered into by the state and death ...

Arkansas' attorney general is seeking to have a former nursing home operator who was pardoned by President Donald Trump serve ...

LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Dennis Whaley, the man convicted of killing two people in Lansing last year, has been sentenced to ...

Rights groups say Mohammadi, who won 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, was detained at ceremony in northeastern city of Mashhad.

A Louisiana man who spent nearly three decades on death row was released on bail Wednesday after his conviction was overturned earlier this year.