Raymond Lee Oyler set a fire that killed five firefighters in 2006. The California Supreme Court will decide if he remains on death row, writes Robin Epley of The Sacramento Bee.

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

TALLAHASSEE — Florida lawmakers want to make the death penalty mandatory for immigrants in the country illegally who are convicted of capital crimes, a change that would remove the jury from the ...

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

A Florida man convicted of murdering a husband and wife while the couple's toddler looked on is set to be executed Thursday ...

No capital punishment has been approved by the Supreme Court for a second year in a row in India. The last hangings in India ...

Arizona has set an execution date for a convicted killer on death row, marking the state's return to the death penalty after ...

Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation that would allow child rapists to be sentenced to death as some Republicans hope to entice the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit the decision banning ...

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch effort Wednesday from his defense attorneys to get him off death row clearing the way for his execution Thursday night. According to a probable cause ...

In Florida, capital crimes include homicide, controlled-substance trafficking and sexual abuse of young children.

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 ...

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