A death row inmate’s attorneys are asking the court to reverse a lower court’s decision that declined to decide eligibility ...

Kimberly C. Stevens is a senior capital resource counsel at the Federal Capital Trial Project, which provides assistance to ...

The additional charges may signal law enforcement are progressing in their investigation of a sprawling case that links six ...

When contemplating the fate of veterans convicted of capital crime, it is important to bear in mind that combat-related brain ...

A Mississippi man who has been on Death Row for 49 years is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, one of two ...

Catholic organizations had lobbied Quinn to end the death penalty. The former governor was not previously aware of Prevost’s ...

Since 2000, at least seven people have been exonerated after courts found serious flaws associated with a theory called "bite ...

The man charged with killing a prominent Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another could face the death penalty, something that ...

Gov. Mike DeWine has again pushed back the state’s next three scheduled executions, including for Quisi Bryan, who was ...

The lawyer said he anticipates the capital crimes will be filed in “short order” in the case of Teresa Youngblut in the fatal shooting earlier this year in northern Vermont.

Despite decades of attempted legal interference and motions filed to prevent it, Mississippi's longest-serving death row ...

The jury, or the court if a jury is waived, must find that at least one exists beyond a reasonable doubt before a death ...