If convicted, Sara Duterte's impeachment would only result in her removal from office and disqualification from running again ...

Attorneys for the man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death in 2022 have nodded to autism spectrum ...

The Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s ruling that had upheld death row inmate Richard Glossip’s murder conviction.

Details are not yet known because this motion to strike the death penalty option in Bryan Kohberger's murder case is sealed.

Elections have consequences, so the slogan goes. One of those consequences was on full display Feb. 5, in the minutes after ...

Almost 1,000 people were executed in Iran in 2024. While lawyers and activists protest against the wave of executions, rights ...

Landry’s decision is significant in part because until recently, Louisiana was part of a group I call the death penalty “swing states”—states that have the death penalty on the books but ...

Instead, the court focused on the mandatory imposition of the death penalty — by hanging, which it ruled violated the right to life and the right to dignity, as protected under articles 4 and 5 ...

Oklahoma’s Republican attorney general agreed with the death row prisoner that he should get a new trial. Oklahoma’s state criminal court disagreed.

One of his federal charges is eligible for the death penalty. A federal judge in New York on Tuesday appointed a death penalty expert to the defense team of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of ...

The state's highest court upheld a law transferring more control of death penalty cases from local district attorneys to the ...

Ohio lawmakers who want to end the death penalty are testing a new strategy: Pairing their proposal with a ban on taxpayer-funded abortions. A group of Republicans and Democrats plan to introduce ...