A retired judge poured over boxes of records, interviewed dozens of people at the many nexuses of state executions, and ...

Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for killing an off-duty Orangeburg police officer in Calhoun County, South Carolina.

The Supreme Court on Friday sided with federal prosecutors who moved to tack extra prison time onto the sentence of a ...

Some Latino pastors feel betrayed by the government's harsh enforcement efforts, as worship leaders disappear and congregants ...

The nonprofit Apache Stronghold has argued its religious freedom case all the way to the highest court in the land. On Friday, the nine justices are meeting in conference once again, and an answer may ...

A federal jury has convicted a former Republican candidate for the New Mexico House of Representatives for shooting at the ...

For the second consecutive year, a bill seeking to remove the death penalty from Delaware’s constitution is up for debate in ...

Harris Faulkner came up with a wild hypothetical to offer a suggestion to Karoline Leavitt on how to deal with Tesla vandals ...

Louisiana was scheduled to murder Jessie Hoffman by first immobilizing him by tying down his arms, hands, legs and torso on a ...

A woman filed a lawsuit in a federal court in Houston against Death Row Records after never receiving the $100 million that ...

The State of Florida on Thursday executed a death row inmate convicted of raping and killing an 8-year-old girl and then ...