Kenneth Lee Simpson is set to stand trial in January for the murder of Hermann police Det. Sgt. Mason Griffith.

Congo’s public prosecutor has asked for the death penalty for former President Joseph Kabila, who is being tried in absentia ...

Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty for a man accused of fatally shooting two police officers in northern Utah last ...

President Donald Trump's administration is faltering in its aggressive pursuit of the death penalty as it revisits cases in ...

Federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against Bandidos members David Vargas and Roy Gomez, accused of killing ...

"We don't condone what these criminals [do] and what my brother did, and I don't condone the State of Utah doing the same ...

As the days tick down to Ralph Menzies’ execution, anti-death penalty advocates said Friday that a firing squad leaves open ...

Lakshmi along with her lover Krishnamurthy were convicted in the murder of Imityaz Ahmed Khan, husband of convicted Lakshmi.

Tennessee’s oldest death row inmate, Oscar Franklin Smit,h brutally murdered his wife and her children over thirty years ago.

The scheduled execution comes amid an elevated number of executions in Florida and nationwide in 2025, and it highlights ...

President Biden’s Justice Department has ordered a moratorium on carrying out federal death sentences after a surge in executions under the Trump administration. By Hailey Fuchs The routine ...

Gregg v. Georgia 428 U.S. 153 (1976) — [The] Court upheld Georgia’s newly passed death penalty and said that the death penalty was not always cruel and unusual punishment. Tison v.