The Japanese government on Thursday ruled out abolishing the death penalty, rejecting calls by domestic legal experts for a ...

The question of whether prosecutors would charge a Fort Lauderdale man with killing his estranged wife hung over the case for ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-tenured death row inmate, filed court documents asking for post-conviction ...

There are 40 federal inmates on death row whose executions were put off under the Biden-Harris administration's moratorium on ...

Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins testified in support of the state’s death penalty during a Senate Judiciary ...

He also urged President-Elect Donald Trump to execute the notorious Boston Marathon bomber as one of the first acts of his ...

The judge gave the prosecutor and Corey Smith’s defense attorney until the first week in February to come up with a plea deal ...

In our series on how Biden can use the lame duck period to secure civil liberties and civil rights, we examine how Biden can ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has decided the state should take a break from executions for the holidays. Justices issued ...

An American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) petition is calling on President Biden “to commute all federal death sentences” ...

Although increased litigation costs are the largest reasons for the expense of the death penalty, they are not alone. | ...