On the day Charlie Kirk was slain, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox began talking about the death penalty for his alleged killer. Here's what that could mean.

A man held on Rikers Island who was waiting two months to be transferred upstate to serve a prison sentence died Wednesday night, officials said — making him the third detainee death in the city jails ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The State Attorney General asked for an expedited mental competency evaluation of death row inmate Ralph Menzies. In the motion, Derek Brown asked that all examiners submit ...

In hand-written letters and testimony, Scotty Ray Gardner has made his desire to speed up his capital murder case clear. Gardner, 65, on Arkansas' death row for killing his girlfriend in Conway in ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a new trial for an Alabama death row inmate after tests showed it was another man’s DNA on the victim’s body. Chief U.S. District Judge Emily C.

It is unclear how Mr. Trump would carry out his directive. The Supreme Court ruled that mandatory death sentences were unconstitutional nearly half a century ago. By Chris Cameron Reporting from ...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday his administration would seek the death penalty for anyone convicted of murder in Washington, D.C., intensifying his anti-crime rhetoric as he pursues a crackdown ...

After recent DNA testing raised questions, a Montgomery man who Alabama has kept on a death row for 31 years will get another shot at justice. A federal judge has ordered a new trial in the 1992 ...

Death row inmate Matthew Caylor, 50, died by suicide in a Florida prison, according to the substack Tracking Florida's Death Penalty. Caylor was sentenced to death for the 2008 murder of a young girl ...

Suge Knight doesn’t think Drake’s 2Pac chain is authentic. In a recent interview given to the Art of Dialogue from prison, Knight claimed the supposed Death Row Records chain that once belonged to Pac ...

ANDERSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — A man on death row pleaded guilty to raping two children in Oak Ridge Monday morning, said District Attorney General Dave Clark. Sean Shannon Finnegan pleaded guilty to ...