A federal appeals court ruled that Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man who was sentenced to death ...

A federal appeals court ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990, ...

Tennessee death row prisoner Byron Black has filed a motion to deactivate his implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) at ...

I t’s been 57 years since Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated for preaching a gospel of nonviolence, redemption, and mercy. Like me, he opposed the death penalty — not out of ...

A white gunman who killed 10 Black people in a Buffalo, New York, supermarket is requesting to move his death penalty trial to New York City to be judged by a racially diverse jury, according to ...

Luigi Mangione, 26, accused in the slaying of CEO Brian Thompson, is up for the death penalty if he's convicted on federal charges. Here's why.

The move marks a stark change in policy in California. Governor Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on the death penalty in 2019. A moratorium is a temporary suspension or delay of an activity, law ...

Nathan Hochman speaks at a news conference in Los Angeles on March 10, 2025. Damian Dovarganes/AP. Hochman said that under the new death penalty policy, defense attorneys will be allowed to ...

Rafael Caro Quintero, who faces trial in Brooklyn, and at least four other drug cartel figures are vulnerable to the death penalty because they were expelled from Mexico rather than extradited.

WEST CHESTER — Chester County has a tangled history with the death penalty. Since 1978, when capital punishment was approved by the state Legislature after having been dormant since a state ...

DeSantis and the Florida legislature then set about radically reshaping the state’s death penalty system. In April 2023, shortly before the Melly trial began, DeSantis signed a bill ending the ...