Ramos pleaded guilty to killing Sacramento police rookie Tara O’Sullivan, but a prior jury deadlocked on whether he should be put to death.

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

The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out the murder conviction and death penalty for Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma man who has ...

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 ...

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died from "natural causes," the state corrections department said. He was convicted of murder in ...

The wife of an Oklahoma man whose murder conviction and death penalty were thrown out by the Supreme Court says the decision ...

Luigi Mangione has pleaded not guilty to state charges, but still has to enter a plea on federal murder charges in connection to Brian Thompson's murder. Can Luigi Mangione face death penalty?

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill asked a federal appeals court to halt a district judge's decision to reopen a case ...

Luigi Mangione’s lawyer said federal prosecutors are still weighing the death ... penalty over the murder of UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive Brian Thompson, complicating his defense on New ...

544, which urges member states to abolish the death penalty. Additionally, the commission called on the African Union to adopt the Additional Protocol to the African Charter on the Abolition of ...

The move could affect plans to execute two prisoners in March. "This case has always been about Louisiana’s execution ...

During that time, drug overdose deaths decreased by 4% nationwide, marking the first time overdose deaths declined since the ...