Four audio tapes of executions carried out by Virginia’s Department of Corrections (VDOC) are believed to be among the only recordings of capital punishment available to the public in the United ...

Court records show the events spun out of a corrective gang beating that — triggered by a laughing emoji — morphed into a ...

including individuals with ties to Virginia. Their sentences have been reclassified from execution to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, the White House announced. This clemency ...

The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with ...

Jury selection began Monday in the trial of Megan Boswell, the mother charged in the death of her young child in Sullivan ...

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam Wednesday signed into law a bill whereby the death penalty has been abolished after over 400 years in the force, thus making his state the 23rd to take such a step.

Police executed multiple search warrants across the city of Charlottesville Tuesday, netting a gun, ammunition and an arrest ...