A memo from Pam Bondi asked prosecutors to pursue the death penalty for groups including immigrants illegally residing in the ...

Undocumented immigrants convicted of first-degree murder or raping children would face mandatory death sentences, under bills ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

Georgia remains the only state where it must be proven “beyond a reasonable doubt,” the highest standard of proof in law.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

The Florida Legislature was poised Wednesday to pass what Gov. Ron DeSantis is hailing as the strongest legislation to combat ...

Two men convicted of murder, including one who has spent more than 25 years on Death Row, are to be executed by lethal ...

Alabama lawmakers advanced legislation that would allow child rapists to be sentenced to death.  The U.S. Supreme Court in 2008 ruled that the death penalty is not an allowable punishment for child ...

Some view the death penalty as a “merciful” source of closure to the victim’s family and friends. But after a brief period of ...

Bombshell new DNA evidence could see Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger, 30, walk free as he faces a potential death penalty if convicted of stabbing four college students to death.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by Florida Death Row inmate James Ford, setting the stage for his execution Thursday in the 1997 murders of a couple in Charlotte County.