On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

A Harrisburg man potentially facing the death penalty just fired his public defender and told a judge he would represent ...

For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman ...

The court had earlier vacated Darrell Robinson's conviction and death sentence in a brutal quadruple murder in Rapides Parish ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...

A former federal prosecutor said a media leak in the Bryan Kohberger murder case has the potential to take the death penalty ...

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

Nearly five decades after being convicted of murder, a Mississippi man got executed. Can that happen in NJ, PA?

Vietnam will remove the death penalty for eight offences from next month, including embezzlement and activities aimed at ...

The move, one official said, would help the country extradite suspects from abroad. It would also spare the life of a ...