Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against a Tennessee man charged with killing the parents, grandmother and uncle of ...

Nia Williams died on April 28. Investigators allege the 7-year-old suffered fatal damage to her organs after her mother ...

Austin Drummond, charged in connection with the July 29 quadruple homicide in Lake County, is being held without bond as ...

Foreign defendants are rarely sent to the United States if they might face death, and America’s use of capital punishment has ...

The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.

The U.S. directed prosecutors to not seek capital punishment for three reputed drug lords, including one in a DEA agent's ...

U.S. prosecutors won’t seek the death penalty in their cases against Mexican drug lords Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Rafael ...

Federal prosecutors secured an indictment Wednesday detailing nearly 10 charges connected with the killings of Israeli ...

The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it will not seek the death penalty for accused Mexican drug traffickers Rafael ...

Several Arkansas death row inmates have sued the state to block a new law allowing executions by nitrogen gas.