The man accused of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses -- two fatally -- is now in federal custody on murder ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that a Memphis judge did not have the authority to give a man formerly on death row ...

U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate said he will decide Monday whether to delay Richard Jordan’s execution. The 79- year-old ...

Minnesota may not have the death penalty, but that doesn’t mean Vance Boelter is safe from it if he's convicted in federal ...

Scott Panetti had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, paranoid delusions, depression and insomnia. His case made it to the U.S ...

A man with two death sentences chose lethal injection after attorneys referenced a problematic firing squad case. Lawyers ...

The suspected killer of a Minnesota lawmaker could face the death penalty, US prosecutors said Monday as they revealed chilling details of an alleged murderous nighttime spree targeting local ...

Gregory Hunt was convicted of killing Karen Lane, a woman he had been dating for about a month, according to court records.

In nearly 350 death penalty cases Maricopa County prosecutors pursued over 20 years, just 13% ended in a death sentence. The ...

Diagnosed with a psychotic disorder, he spent 30 years on death row. In 2007, the Supreme Court raised the bar for executing ...

Rep. Matt Simpson's HB20 would add a 22nd factor to Alabama's capital murder law, targeting those who "knowingly create great ...

Oklahoma prosecutors say they will retry longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip a third time for his role in the 1997 ...