In 2008 and 2009 police interviews, Tupac Shakur murder suspect Duane "Keefe D" Davis made claims about Sean "Diddy" Combs' ...

Richard Jordan, the longest-serving and oldest person on Mississippi's death row, was executed on June 25 for the 1976 murder ...

The state of Alabama has a complicated relationship with science, and its criminal courts are no exception. Often, state ...

Japan’s most recent execution, in July 2022, was of a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

Bryan Kohberger, 30, is accused in the stabbing deaths of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves at ...

The federal government can now pursue the death penalty against the Boulder attack suspect following the death of a victim.

As of June 19, 2025, there were 169 people on death row in Texas. Four of them are women, including Melissa Lucio, who was convicted in 2008 of beating her 2-year-old daughter to death.

Catholic organizations had lobbied Pat Quinn to end the death penalty. The former governor was not previously aware of ...

A coalition of California and national civil rights leaders called on Governor Gavin Newsom to commute the death sentences of ...

Christopher Barbour tried to take back his confession more than 30 years ago. Now, new DNA points to someone else.