WEST CHESTER — Chester County has a tangled history with the death penalty. Since 1978, when capital punishment was approved by the state Legislature after having been dormant since a state Supreme ...

Edward Busby was executed by lethal injection Thursday, reinforcing Texas’ position as the nation's leader in capital ...

Gov. Jeff Landry is pushing Louisiana to resume executing death row prisoners, with the state potentially carrying out its first executions since 2010 next month with nitrogen gas on the table. A pair ...

Minnesota abolished the death penalty in 1911 and there are few examples of it being pursued for crimes in the state. The decision by federal authorities to charge Vance Boelter with both stalking and ...

A second death row inmate in South Carolina has chosen execution by firing squad. It comes just weeks after the first ...

The report, “ An Extreme Outlier: Race and the Death Penalty in Tarrant County, the Third Largest County in Texas,” was ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 9, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Carlton Fisk is all smiles as he ...

Editor's note: This story was reported and published prior to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals decision on Oct. 9 to grant Robert Roberson a stay of execution. Robert Roberson was never charged ...