Ishmael Petty, who was separately convicted of assaulting prison employees, is the latest to face a possible death sentence ...

New Delhi: Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a key 2008 Mumbai attacks accused who landed in Delhi on Thursday, will be tried for waging ...

Attorneys appealed to the Tennessee governor to pause all executions until next year to allow for courts to review a new lethal injection protocol.

Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty for an inmate at a maximum-security facility in Colorado, the DOJ announced, ...

State and federal prosecutors have both accused Mr. Mangione of killing a health insurance executive. Attorney General Pam ...

L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman says he will allow prosecutors in his office to consider pursuing the death penalty, a ...

More than 170 legal filings with considerable implications for trial in the University of Idaho student homicides case are ...

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.