Stephen Stanko, a South Carolina death row inmate, chose lethal injection after a firing squad execution was criticized as ...

Alameda County’s new district attorney is rejecting her predecessor’s recommendations to resentence people on death row — ...

Harris County spent nearly $2 million in taxpayer funds to defend Xavier Davis from the death penalty, court records show, ...

President Joseph R. Biden Jr. commuted dozens of men’s sentences to life without parole, but the Trump administration has ...

Can Daikerlyn Alejandra Gonzalez Gonzalez, accused of driving a jet ski recklessly and killing Ava Moore before leaving the ...

A federal judge has denied a legal attempt, for now, to prevent the U.S. government from transferring former death row ...

A Houston-based civil rights organization has responded to Gov. Greg Abbott after he threatened the death penalty for two ...

The latest request for a death sentence came May 21. Prosecutors asked for that punishment for a drifter who is suspected of ...

Federal prosecutors won’t seek the death penalty for the son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman if ...

The U.S. will not seek the death penalty for a son of convicted Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Joaquin ...

A court on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali has sentenced a British man to 10 months in jail for drug offenses after a ...