The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.

City Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez has called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to commute all remaining death row sentences in the state, it was announced Wednesday. On Friday, Soto-Martinez introduced a ...

A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

A federal appeals court has ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990.

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...

PUTNAM COUNTY, Fla. — The State of Florida announced Friday it is seeking the death penalty for a registered sex offender accused of more child sex crimes in Putnam County. According to a May 16 ...

State Attorney R.J. Larizza filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty against Dimeco Henderson this week. Henderson is accused of sexually abusing two child victims over three years ...

Jun. 19—A Decatur man charged with capital murder seeks protection from the death penalty even as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to reexamine, in an appeal by the state of Alabama, guidelines ...

Two of the six federal counts can carry the death penalty, something federal prosecutors have not sought in a Minnesota-based case since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.

Two of the six federal counts can carry the death penalty, something federal prosecutors have not sought in a Minnesota-based case since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.