Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

Aaron Brian Gunches' execution would mark a resumption of Arizona's use of the death penalty after a two-year pause while it reviewed its procedures.

An Alabama man has been sentenced to death for fatally shooting two people in 2020. Derrick Hightower was sentenced Thursday ...

Tennessee says it is ready to resume death row executions in 2025. The Department of Corrections announced it will use a drug ...

South Carolina's Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state's next execution after allowing a pause for the Christmas ...

Days before jury selection was set at the courthouse, the District Attorney’s Office announced they will no longer be going ...

On his way out of office, former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of death row inmates, as the Tar Heel State has halted executions amid litigation over the past 20 years.

Following the Kasganj violence verdict, Chandan Gupta's family expresses satisfaction but demands stricter penalties for main ...

Plus: President-elect Donald Trump says he will rename the country's tallest mountain, reverting to a former name. | The year ...