For the past several weeks, a major challenge to Kansas’ death penalty has been underway in a Wyandotte County murder case.

Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

Anne Taylor asked the judge in a slew of motions to remove capital punishment as an option using the same legal playbook that ...

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

Calvin Crew, accused of kidnapping and killing an Uber driver in Monroeville, will not face the death penalty.

Prosecutors say they are planning to seek the death penalty for the man charged with killing two people and injuring several ...

Palm Beach County prosecutors want to seek the death penalty in the November 2021 fatal stabbing of Ryan Rogers, 14, of Palm Beach Gardens.

Zimbabwe hasn’t executed anyone who was sentenced to death since 2005. With the passing of the Death Penalty Abolition Act ...

The man accused of the shooting deaths of two people in Bloomfield, Neb. in early 2024 could still face the death penalty ...

President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row. More than 2,000 others remain on ...

The death penalty remains on the table for the man accused of fatally shooting two men at a Bloomfield bowling alley last ...

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved a law that abolishes the death penalty in the southern African state ...