The shadow of the four executioners with British accents often loomed over the trial of the jailers and torturers of the ...

The teen accused of stabbing track star Austin Metcalf to death will not face life behind bars or the death penalty, ...

L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman says he will allow prosecutors in his office to consider pursuing the death penalty, a ...

This story has been updated to show Jere Bagenstose was convicted of Voluntary Manslaughter LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) – A Lancaster County man was found guilty by a jury on Tuesday of ...

Paul Scott, who murdered Boca Raton florist James Alessi, was sentenced to death in 1979. He has survived five death warrants ...

The Justice Department detailed its case against Santos in a 26-page letter to United States District Judge Joanna Seybert.

(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) The California Supreme Court overturned the death penalty conviction of one of L.A.'s most ...

Hasan was convicted of murdering 13 people at Ford Hood (now Fort Cavazos) in 2009. The U.S. Supreme Court was his last hope ...

ITV's 'The Real Ruth Ellis' tells the story of the last woman to face the death penalty in the UK. The show aired on ITV1 on ...

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has set an execution date for a death row inmate convicted of killing a 77-year-old woman in 1999.

George John Hanson, also known as John Fitzgerald Hanson, is scheduled to die on June 12 for the 1999 murder of 77-year-old ...