A death row inmate could be the seventh scheduled for execution in the past 10 months after a Lexington County judge decided ...

The man charged with killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and wounding a state senator and ...

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection.

A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

More than three years after his execution was stayed, an upcoming hearing will address death row inmate Ramiro Ibarra’s ...

The Indiana State Police have released more information in the death investigation of the man who died while in the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Law Enforcement Division custody Saturday.

A woman charged in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont wants to delay the government’s decision on whether to seek the death penalty by at least six months.

A death row inmate suffered an agonizing execution in 2020, hours after making a “mistake” relating to his last meal request.

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

Attorney General Pam Bondi previously singled out the case as an example where federal prosectors could seek capital charges.

A trial date has been set for the man accused of killing a co-worker at Candlewood Suites in downtown Terre Haute.

The Indiana Attorney General’s Office requested an execution date for death row inmate Roy Lee Ward, the Spencer County man convicted in 2007 for the rape and murder of 15‑year‑old ...