The girlfriend, now 16, is the prime witness against an alleged gang member – who was just 13 when he was arrested a year ago ...

If legislators in the House and Senate can reach a compromise, convictions of sexual battery against children will be ...

In theory, the death penalty is reserved for “the worst of the worst.” In practice, it is very different. People who are ...

Prosecutors have not decided if they will seek the death penalty for some of the suspects in the killing of a Rogers man, but ...

A bipartisan group of Missouri lawmakers and religious leaders want to abolish the death penalty, citing its financial and human costs.

Legislation would require death or life without parole for the most severe sexual battery cases.

There are 32 attorneys, investigators and specialists in the Missouri State Public Defender Office dedicated to preventing ...

From prison on his scheduled execution day, Charles “Sonny" Burton said he feels he “dodged death" after receiving clemency. He called the decision “a gift from God." ...

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice in a 1991 murder from execution on Thursday.

There are 32 attorneys, investigators and specialists in the Missouri State Public Defender Office dedicated to preventing the wrongful execution of innocent people on death row. The agency spends ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey spared the life of a 75-year-old death row inmate who was set to be executed this week for a killing he did not commit ...

In a rare exercise of executive leniency, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on March 10 commuted the death sentence of 75-year-old Charles “Sonny” Burton, just days before he was scheduled to face the ...