How many people have been executed in Mississippi? How were their deaths conducted? How many women executed? Any notable ...

“It's a remarkable development,” Frank Baumgartner, a death penalty researcher and political science professor ... Then the firing squads and hangings of the Wild West days moved to the electric chair ...

The move, one official said, would help the country extradite suspects from abroad. It would also spare the life of a ...

Dylann Roof wanted to start a race war, but I feel like there is already such a war going on, and it plays out in our ...

There are not many more well-known serial killers than the infamous Ted Bundy who was responsible for the deaths of at least 20 women ...

Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith represented dozens of inmates on Death Row and claims he watched an innocent man die - and that ...

L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman says he will allow prosecutors in his office to consider pursuing the death penalty, a punishment his predecessor did not use.

Before Rogers' death, the most recent U.S. execution took place May 1, when Jeffrey Hutchinson, 62, died by lethal injection in Florida for the 1998 shotgun slayings of his girlfriend and her ...

Federal prosecutors in New Mexico said Friday they plan to seek the death penalty for the first time since 2018 in the case of a man charged in two homicides and other crimes. The request by U.S.

Michael Aaron Jayne, who is charged with killing a Santaquin police officer, now has attorneys set to help his capital murder case move forward.

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — North Carolina House Republicans are looking to change the method of execution for people on death row and end the state’s nearly two decades-long moratorium. On Tuesday ...

Charles Reynolds was the first person in Texas to die in the electric chair on Feb. 8, ... Currently 27 states, the federal government and the U.S. military use the death penalty.