Protestors campaign to stop the death penalty in South Carolina. The state carried out the first firing squad execution in ...

Meet the Beast of Omaha – the man with 1,000 kills on D-Day. His story is as terrifying as it is legendary. Gene Hackman’s ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

Charles Manson died in November 2017 while serving nine life sentences for the horrific murders he orchestrated in 1969. Here ...

The Supreme Court has tossed out the murder conviction and death sentence of Oklahoma's Richard Glossip, ordering a new trial. Glossip was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1997 killing in ...

REFLECTING A divergence in decision-making on death penalty at different levels in the judiciary, the Supreme Court — for the second consecutive year — did not confirm a single death sentence in 2024 ...

The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a Utah state court decision that overturned the death sentence for man convicted of ...

MILLCREEK, Utah — A person was found dead in the Revolve Apartments in Millcreek on Sunday evening. According to Aymee Race ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison Friday, saying there were enough questions about his guilt that she could not move forward with his ...

This story was produced in partnership with The Garrison Project, an independent, nonpartisan organization addressing the crisis of mass incarceration and policing. Cortlen Henry pulled his Jeep ...

Suge Knight's bid to overturn his 28-year prison sentence in his hit-and-run manslaughter case has been denied.

Yuki Endo, who is now 21, was given the death sentence on Jan. 18 by the Kofu District Court as sought by prosecutors. Endo was accused of murder and arson charges for fatally stabbing a married ...