Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-tenured death row inmate, filed court documents asking for post-conviction ...

Robert Fisher died Nov. 10 while he was housed at the State Correctional Institution at Fayette in Fayette County, southeast ...

A Florida businessman already charged with kidnapping his estranged wife in Spain is facing new U.S. charges that he killed ...

He also urged President-Elect Donald Trump to execute the notorious Boston Marathon bomber as one of the first acts of his ...

The judge gave the prosecutor and Corey Smith’s defense attorney until the first week in February to come up with a plea deal.

Umphenour, 29, and Skylar Meade, 32, were both indicted by a grand jury for first-degree murder in the death of 83-year-old ...

In our series on how Biden can use the lame duck period to secure civil liberties and civil rights, we examine how Biden can ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has decided the state should take a break from executions for the holidays. Justices issued ...

An American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) petition is calling on President Biden “to commute all federal death sentences” ...

David and Ana Knezevich were going through a difficult divorce before she vanished in Madrid. Her body has not been found.

Although increased litigation costs are the largest reasons for the expense of the death penalty, they are not alone. | ...