death penalty

Convicted cop-killer Vernon Madison shouldn't be executed because he can’t remember committing the 1985 murder that landed him on death row, his attorney told the Supreme Court Oct. 2. The ...

The bodies of the two young girls allegedly killed in Colorado by their father had been submerged in ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas—Texas' highest criminal court has become an unlikely source for a lull in executions this year in ...

Texas lawyer Jerry Guerinot said he no longer represents people accused of capital murder after four decades of ...

The state of Arizona has eliminated its use of the sedative midazolam as one of the drugs it ...

Pharmaceutical company Pfizer said on May 13 it is blocking use of its drugs to execute prisoners.

A South Carolina federal judge held a hearing on April 5 delaying the case regarding the shooting deaths of ...

House Representative Robert Foster believes the majority of Mississippians would support the option.

During a Democratic Town Hall in Ohio on March 13, an exonerated inmate who was on death row ...

VATICAN CITY—Pope Francis on Sunday urged Catholic leaders to show "exemplary" courage by not allowing executions this year, ...

In Georgia, four little words mean the difference between life and death for a small subset of people.

A juror in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev says he probably would not have voted ...

WASHINGTON— Wherever their summer travels have taken them, Supreme Court justices probably will weigh in over the next ...

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the use of a controversial drug that has been implicated in several ...

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif temporarily suspended the use of the death penalty during the holy Muslim fasting ...

The jury selection for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is in process, and while he faces 30 ...

Iraqi authorities have executed at least 60 people so far in 2014, a United Nations report said Sunday, ...

    As the nation is horrified by another botched execution, a capital defense lawyer in Texas, legal ...

A report advocating death penalty reforms finds that false confessions in capital cases can be limited by recording ...

Since 1976, 1,338 people have been executed in the U.S. Of those executions, 500 have taken place in ...

Texas execution: Texas carried out its first execution of 2013 when it put to death a man convicted ...

Voters in California rejected an initiative to get rid of the death penalty during Tuesday’s election.

An U.N. resolution to abolish capital punishment will be voted on in December. South Sudan’s justice system is ...

Lethal injection is the leading method of execution in the United States, but a sedative found in some ...

In the years since the death penalty was reinstated in Illinois, investigators have uncovered a wealth of problems ...

Malaysians debate if the death sentence will stop incidences of baby dumping in their country.

Brad Pitt said the death penalty may be appropriate for those responsible for the BP oil spill.