A Houston-area man convicted of killing his wife died this week after more than three decades on death row, marking the ...

Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen, who fervently sought Richard Farley’s sentence reduction, just walked away.

Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 execution. In Nashville’s ...

Bryan Kohberger appeared expressionless as a judge asked if he murdered four Idaho college students in their off-campus home, ...

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

Attorney General Pam Bondi previously singled out the case as an example where federal prosectors could seek capital charges.

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

A woman charged in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont wants to delay the government’s decision on whether to ...

Reports have revealed that Bryan Kohberger committed more murders than any current inmate on Idaho’s Death Row.

Bryan Kohberger has pleaded guilty to murder in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students. He entered the plea ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

A New Mexico man accused of kidnapping and murdering several Native American men now faces the death penalty. It comes after ...