Chemical abortions, the death penalty and robots with guns were all topics of discussion in a Tuesday legislative committee ...

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

Trump urges Congress to pass executive order for mandatory death penalty for killing a police officer.

The Supreme Court recently commuted the death penalty of a bank manager, who killed his two children in June 2010, to teach his wife a lesson for not supporting him when he disapproved of the person ...

[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 ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a Utah state court decision that overturned the death sentence for a man convicted of murdering a woman to stop her from testifying against ...

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 ...

In a final statement shared by his lawyer, Sigmon said, “I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty.” He quoted ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted a death sentence for the first time in her tenure Friday, sparing inmate Robin Dion "Rocky" Myers. The Alabama Supreme Court had cleared the way for Myers to be ...

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

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 ...

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