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

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.

The leader of an MS-13 clique in the suburbs of New York City was sentenced Wednesday to 68 years in prison in a federal ...

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.

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.

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 ...

New York Times journalist Kevin Sack says there was a “Charleston before 2015 and a Charleston after 2015″ in a discussion ...

The high-profile assassination of a top Minnesota lawmaker and her husband​ could bring about a form of punishment long ...