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

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

The decision by federal authorities to charge Vance Boelter with both stalking and the use of a firearm for the murder of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark opens him up to a potential death ...

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

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

Corinna Lane, a former prosecutor, discusses the flaws in the US death penalty system, the pharmaceutical crisis that halted lethal injection, and the humanity of those on death row in her book ...

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 ...

On Thursday, Arkeem Marshall, 33, was convicted of capital murder for the September 2023 shooting death of TiMira Pullom, 28.

CATLETTSBURG An arson-murder suspect in a case dating back to October 2020 is no longer facing the death penalty. Demetrius Butler, 55, learned Thursday in Boyd County Circuit Court that his case is ...

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