Justices Sotomayor and Jackson criticize court’s refusal to clarify criminal appeal rights "Unfortunately, the Court leaves ...

A court in the UAE has sentenced three people to death for the murder of Israeli-Moldovan Zvi Kogan, a 28-year-old rabbi. The ...

CADDO PARISH, La. (KSLA) - The Caddo Parish District Attorney’s Office is seeking death warrants for two death row inmates.

Kim Soo Hyun, popular South Korean actor, is currently in the middle of a massive controversy involving late actress Kim Sae ...

This is the second of a two-part series on issues defense attorneys might have raised if Patrick Crusius had gone to trial for the 2019 Walmart mass shooting. Previously: Patrick Crusius ...

Ohio should abandon the death penalty—not just because it’s morally flawed, but because it’s broken, costly, and being used as a political tool by those, like Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, more ...

One of the people killed in the shootings was a 10-year-old boy at a nail salon. His death outraged the community.

Lawyers for a Florida man on death row are seeking to halt his execution set for next week, arguing that his obesity could lead to a botched lethal injection.

A last-ditch effort from attorneys of a death row inmate argue that his beliefs about being a "sovereign citizen" could be ...

The city of Birmingham is grappling with a series of violent incidents allegedly linked to 22-year-old Damien McDaniel, who ...

The morbidly obese killer’s defense team argued his planned lethal injection would violate the Eighth Amendment, which protects against forms of cruel and unusual punishment.

Goethals is the rare jurist to have prosecuted, defended and presided over death penalty cases during a decades-long career.