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 ...

Vietnam has lifted the death penalty for eight crimes in legal reforms that may spare the life of a real estate tycoon ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Indiana seeks execution date for Roy Lee Ward, despite previous plans to pause lethal injection drug purchases.

As the 10th anniversary of a murder that shocked Southwest Florida approaches, the focus turns to Mark Sievers, who is on ...

Two Utah death row cases tied to murders in the 1980s are seeing new movement, with one facing a possible retrial and another ...