They affirmed the convictions and the sentences. The court rejected the appeal based in part on Lorenzo’s own defense, ...

Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty in the case against the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk. In Utah, ...

Steven Lorenzo says he is ready to die. Sentenced to death two years ago after he pleaded guilty to the torturous murders of ...

Victor Jones, convicted in couple’s 1990 murder in Miami-Dade County, could be the third former student at notorious reform ...

The death penalty hasn't been repealed in North Carolina. But it also hasn't been used in almost 20 years. Some state lawmakers want to change that.

President Trump’s suggestions that the suspects in two high-profile killings face the death penalty add to his administration’s increasingly aggressive approach toward capital punishment.  This ...

A year after the restart of executions in South Carolina, some Republicans are calling for an expansion that would make more ...

122 people are currently on death row in the state, including 120 men and two women. The most recent death sentence was ...

While Booth was staking out the theater when Lincoln and his wife, famed cabaret aspirant Mary Todd Lincoln, were watching ...

COVID-19 was the fourth leading cause of death in 2022 and the 10th in 2023. There were still tens of thousands of COVID-19 ...

Father Dustin Feddon wants to “reimagine prisons as places not for punishment but repair, …spaces that take the possibility ...

A recent homicide in Dallas is the latest to involve a Cuban national charged with decapitating a victim in the U.S.