Melly could be sentenced to death by a non-unanimous jury — a practice with deep roots in Jim Crow — if convicted in a double ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison Friday, saying there were enough ...

After nearly three decades maintaining his innocence on Oklahoma’s death row, Richard Glossip this week now has the ...

Kohberger is accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death in their off-campus home in Nov. 2022.

The United States Department of Justice is reviewing whether to seek the death penalty in the case of Marcus Spanevelo, who ...

Over 80 percent of people in Japan support the death penalty, saying the existence of the system is "unavoidable," according ...

Defense attorneys for Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022, may argue that ...

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall was highly critical of Gov. Kay Ivey’s decision Friday to commute an Alabama inmate’s ...

A death row inmate in Oklahoma who has been scheduled for execution nine separate times and been fed three “last meals” has ...

Defendants attorneys lodged three motions to bar the death penalty from being imposed. A judge rejected their arguments in ...

The bill, Senate File 320, that advanced out of a Senate subcommittee Wednesday would establish the death penalty for individuals who plead guilty or are found guilty of intentional first-degree ...