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A gunman who killed two university students and wounded four in a mass shooting in North Carolina in April pleaded guilty to murder.

Vice President Mike Pence's policy team, which is working with Attorney General William Barr, has drafted legislation to ...

Beto O'Rourke said that he doesn't support executing the alleged El Paso mass shooter. Patrick Crusius, 21, allegedly ...

President Donald Trump called for capital punishment for those convicted of carrying out hate crimes following two mass ...

Democratic senators have introduced a bill to ban the death penalty about a week after the Department of ...

The first person slated for execution by the federal government in over 16 years is a white supremacist ...

Attorney General William Barr ordered federal prisons to resume capital punishment on July 25. The order follows the ...

JACKSON, Ga.—A Georgia inmate convicted of the 1996 shotgun slaying of a man who had agreed to give ...

A Saudi teenager faces execution—and possibly crucifixion or dismemberment after death—for participating in a protest against the government ...

CONCORD, N.H.—New Hampshire, which hasn’t executed anyone in 80 years and has only one inmate on death row, ...

Commentary If my friend ate my cookie, I would probably take her cake and gobble it up. No ...

President Donald Trump said in remarks he delivered on May 15 that he believes people convicted of killing ...

A local gang leader in the southwestern city of Kunming was able to evade his death penalty punishment ...

An American bitcoin investor and his Thai partner could face life in prison or even the death penalty ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—California prosecutors announced on April 10 that they will seek the death penalty if they convict the ...

WASHINGTON—A divided Supreme Court rejected a request from a condemned man in Missouri with a rare and painful ...

WASHINGTON—Missouri can execute an inmate who argued his rare medical condition will result in severe pain if he ...

*DETAILS OF THIS STORY MAY BE DISTURBING* DOYLESTOWN, Pa—A Pennsylvania jury will decide on life or death for ...

An Alabama official said he reached out to President Donald Trump to ask including a mandate for the ...

It is widely understood that Schellenberg’s sentence is politically motivated, as the communist Chinese regime increases pressure on ...

Three lawmakers are calling for the death penalty to be restored in New Jersey after a family of ...

Zhong Jinhua, a former judge and lawyer in Wenzhou, southeastern China, shares his harrowing experiences as a witness ...

The United States sanctioned 17 senior Saudi officials on Nov. 15, hours after Riyadh's top prosecutor called for ...

The unusual request of a condemned man with a rare and painful medical condition to be gassed to ...

Justice Department lawyers at an Oct. 31 hearing rejected a plea offer from a man accused of killing ...

Federal prosecutors are seeking approval to pursue the death penalty against Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect Robert Bowers. U.S. ...

President Trump has called for the death penalty after 11 innocent people were killed in a deadly shooting ...