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 ...

The execution of an Alabama prisoner on Jan. 25 involved the first new death penalty method employed in decades and the first execution in the U.S. of 2024. Kenneth Eugene Smith – who was ...

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.

The Washington County, Virginia Sheriff’s Office, with support from the Virginia State Police Holston River Task Force, ...