Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute goes ...

Prosecutors say they wanted to spare the families of four University of Idaho students killed in November 2022 by agreeing to ...

A Chancery Court judge says the state must disconnect the heart defibrillator shortly before the inmate's August execution to ...

Prosecutors alleged that Roberson killed the child by violently shaking her — a diagnosis commonly referred to at the time as ...

Federal prosecutors say a judge should not delay their decision on whether to seek the death penalty against a woman who is ...

Florida is set to execute its eighth inmate in 2025. Since 1939, five people from Treasure Coast have been executed. See how ...

The man accused of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses – killing state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband – ...

On New Year’s Day in 2019, Tarpon Springs police conducted a welfare check on a couple whose son said he hadn’t heard from ...

An Alabama legislator wants to expand the number of circumstances that can allow the death penalty to be imposed. Rep. Matt ...

Death row convict Jimmie "Chris" Duncan, imprisoned for 32 years for alleged rape and murder of a two-year-old, now has been ...

Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson said the indictment includes a "notice of special findings," which he says is the ...

Beshear, a rising star in the Democratic Party, is not a prominent and outspoken abolitionist. In fact, during an October ...