Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman is allowing county prosecutors to seek the death penalty again, reversing a ban ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (South Dakota Searchlight) – A U.S. Supreme Court case on regulatory rulemaking doesn’t give South Dakota’s only death row inmate a chance to renew and re-litigate the appeals that ...

When it comes to death row inmate Darrell Robinson, the Louisiana Supreme Court can't seem to make up its mind.

A federal court judge has denied Briley Wayne Piper's petition to to appeal his death sentence. The man remains on death row.

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of the ...

A retired judge poured over boxes of records, interviewed dozens of people at the many nexuses of state executions, and ...

Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for killing an off-duty Orangeburg police officer in Calhoun County, South Carolina.

While the men’s death warrants were signed before Donald Trump took office January 20, the state executioners and the US judiciary were certainly emboldened to see these executions through to ...

Steven Bixby who subscrubes to views held by the sovereign citizen movement was sentenced to death for the murders of two law ...

Rafael Caro Quintero, who faces trial in Brooklyn, and at least four other drug cartel figures are vulnerable to the death ...

The attorney general’s office has identified 22 individuals on death row who have exhausted their appeals and are among those ...