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

A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted on hate crime charges the man accused of killing two Israeli Embassy staffers ...

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.

The Justice Department will seek to indict the man accused of killing two Israeli Embassy staff members in Washington, DC, on ...

Byron Black is scheduled to be given a lethal injection after a legal battle about whether a working defibrillator in his ...