Leo Jones, a Black man, was convicted and sentenced to death by an all-white Florida jury in 1982 for the killing of a white police officer. The conviction rested on a key witness who later recanted ...

Referred to as a “hotspot of capital prosecution,” Washington County was the primary focus of a panel discussion hosted by an ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is faltering in its aggressive pursuit of the death penalty as it revisits cases in which predecessors explicitly decided against seeking ...

Texas judges scheduled the fewest executions in at least three decades in 2025, but the state continues to spend millions of ...

But in recent years, Dallas County has moved away from seeking the death penalty in capital cases. Only three new death ...

PHOENIX — In 2010, Vikki Valencia’s 24-year-old brother, Triny Rey Lozano, died in an almost unimaginably brutal way. He was shot in the head multiple times, dumped on a remote road outside Phoenix ...

UPDATE: House Bill 1030, which would've repealed the death penalty in Indiana, died without a committee hearing. Supporters were optimistic because the bill — unlike previous legislative efforts to ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Death penalty cases here in South Carolina have resumed over the last year after a 13-year hiatus, sparking conversations and debate around the act of taking a human life.

The US Department of Justice has announced its intent to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old charged with the December murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Attorney ...

Gov. Mike Braun this week implied he was open to debate on whether Indiana should end the death penalty, after telling reporters the state had run out of the drug used in two recent executions. “We’ve ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - The 2026 legislative session is more than five months away, but lawmakers are already filing bills they say should take priority. Rep. Matt Simpson (R-District 96) has ...