As the governor and others try to fulfill promises that the state will resume executing those awaiting the death penalty, ...

Guatemalan man arrested for allegedly leading a large human smuggling ring responsible for 20,000 illegal US entries.

Melly could be sentenced to death by a non-unanimous jury — a practice with deep roots in Jim Crow — if convicted in a double ...

Tennessee is expected to resume its death penalty soon, after executions were halted for years while the state's process was ...

Attorneys for the man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death have nodded to autism spectrum disorder ...

The defense team for a man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022 might ask a judge to take the death ...

Kristopher Henriqson, 47, was accused of repeatedly raping a girl starting when she was about 9 until after she turned 12, ...

The state's highest court upheld a law transferring more control of death penalty cases from local district attorneys to the ...

A federal jury found Donald “Lil’ Don” Lee and Torance “Blackie” Benson guilty of a racketeering conspiracy in November 2022 ...

Defendants attorneys lodged three motions to bar the death penalty from being imposed. A judge rejected their arguments in ...

A Fort Wayne man charged with murder asked police to give him a death sentence after finding out his ex girlfriend died, ...

Details are not yet known because this motion to strike the death penalty option in Bryan Kohberger's murder case is sealed.