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

Richard Glossip’s Supreme Court case became a focal point in the national debate over the death penalty, which critics say is ...

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 ...

BOISE, Idaho - As Idaho lawmakers discuss the future of the firing squad to carry out executions in the Gem State, the fates ...

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

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?

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

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 ...

Landry’s decision is significant in part because until recently, Louisiana was part of a group I call the death penalty ...

However, the firing squad is not the primary death penalty method used in any of those states, according to data received from the Death Penalty Information Center by the Idaho Capital Sun.

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

A bill before the Colorado state legislature would require a deceased person's gender identity be recorded on their certificate of death under penalty of a fine and/or jail time for anyone who ...