The Alabama House of Representatives voted 86-5 for the bill that would allow prosecutors to pursue the death penalty when an ...

Aaron Gunches will be the first person executed by Arizona in more than two years. His execution was scheduled for March 19.

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

In a 120-page order, Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermons also ruled that race was “a significant factor” in other death ...

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 ...

TALLAHASSEE - After losing at the Florida Supreme Court, attorneys for convicted murderer James Ford this weekend quickly ...

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 ...

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

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