The 2007 case Panetti v. Quarterman raised the bar for executing the mentally ill, requiring a “rational understanding” of ...

Justices will consider the case that revolves around the role of multiple IQ scores in determining an Alabama murderer’s ...

Mobile County District Attorney Keith Blackwood is calling for capital murder to be the default charge for murder suspects.

Gov. Mike Braun this week implied he was open to debate on whether Indiana should end the death penalty, after telling ...

Rep. Paul Gosar has reintroduced legislation seeking the death penalty for fentanyl dealers whose drugs result in death.

Decades ago, the Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it will weigh the use of intelligence tests in death penalty cases.

Indiana has exhausted its supply of lethal injection drugs after carrying out two executions in the past six months — and Gov ...

SAN MATEO COUNTY District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe will seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing seven people and injuring another in a ...

A leading Jewish anti-death penalty group, L'chaim, is calling on federal prosecutors to reject capital punishment for Elias ...

The death penalty is creeping back into California through prosecutors seeking capital punishment in cases like the Half Moon ...