Recent Lafayette resident Mahmoud al-Muhtadi, accused of conspiring with the terrorist group Hamas in the Oct. 7. 2023, ...

A man facing the death penalty for the 2021 murder of a Broward police officer spontaneously pleaded guilty to all charges ...

A judge in New Mexico halted legal proceedings in a federal death penalty case because the U.S. government shutdown is ...

Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, was charged in federal court with violence against a railroad carrier and mass transportation system ...

The president and the Republican Party are bringing capital punishment back to the forefront of American criminal justice.

On Oct. 22, a grand jury in North Carolina found that Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr. had "intentionally killed" Iryna Zarutska, 23 ...

The judge struck down the request, made by Gilday’s defense, who said their client was “seriously mentally ill” at the time ...

Iryna's Law allows convicted individuals to choose between the electric chair, lethal injection, or a firing squad.

Daniel Callihan, 37, has already accepted a plea deal from federal prosecutors that will spare him the death penalty for the ...

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...