Andy Wolfson, the long-time legal affairs reporter for The Courier Journal and its defunct sister publication, The Louisville Times, died the evening of Sept. 17 after battling several health issues ...

They affirmed the convictions and the sentences. The court rejected the appeal based in part on Lorenzo’s own defense, ...

Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty in the case against the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk. In Utah, ...

For this to happen at the scale that it did for as long as it did, there were breakdowns at every single step of the way,” ...

TAMPA — Steven Lorenzo says he is ready to die. Sentenced to death two years ago after he pleaded guilty to the torturous ...

An execution date has been set for a man convicted of committing a murder during a robbery more than 20 years ago.

Victor Jones, convicted in couple’s 1990 murder in Miami-Dade County, could be the third former student at notorious reform ...

A recent homicide in Dallas is the latest to involve a Cuban national charged with decapitating a victim in the U.S.

While Booth was staking out the theater when Lincoln and his wife, famed cabaret aspirant Mary Todd Lincoln, were watching ...

A year after the restart of executions in South Carolina, some Republicans are calling for an expansion that would make more ...

President Trump’s suggestions that the suspects in two high-profile killings face the death penalty add to his administration’s increasingly aggressive approach toward capital punishment.  This ...

The death penalty hasn't been repealed in North Carolina. But it also hasn't been used in almost 20 years. Some state lawmakers want to change that.