Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

The pastor's young widow, Laura Dobson, sobbed on the stand during Steven Nelson's murder trial, saying: 'I didn't know this ...

Of the many executive orders President Donald Trump issued, one reinstates federal capital punishment. The order, “Restoring ...

Nearly four decades ago, public outrage over the execution of Jerome Bowden, a man with an IQ of 65, spurred Georgia ...

The proposal would link capital punishment abolishment with prohibitions on state funding for abortion or physician-assisted ...

Arizona death row inmate Aaron Gunches has asked to be executed next month. This comes as Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney ...

The church where the murder occurred supports the execution, citing biblical justification for capital punishment. Anti-death penalty activists, including a priest who counsels death row inmates, are ...

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

An inmate on South Carolina’s death row died by lethal injection on Friday night, the third execution carried out by the ...

If convicted murderers had been put to death, they couldn’t now be released to kill again.

Iskandar Rahmat was found guilty of the murder of two men - a car workshop owner and his son - and sentenced to death on Dec ...