The Lackawanna County district attorney's office will pursue the death penalty against a man they said stabbed to death two women and injured a third woman at the Jermyn Apartments late last year in ...

Appeal documents filed in the case of Dr. Jason Scott, a veterinarian in New Mexico sanctioned for possession of banned substances, have revealed a recording that purports to demonstrate “ex parte ...

In theory, the death penalty is reserved for “the worst of the worst.” In practice, it is very different. People who are ...

A suspected serial arsonist was charged with murder in connection with a series of fires in Hollywood, included one that ...

After President Trump urged states to recommit themselves to capital punishment, Florida started to put prisoners to death at rates not seen in the state’s modern history.

Cedric Allen Ricks, a Texas death row inmate convicted of killing his common-law wife and child, is set to be executed tomorrow.

Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Sonny Burton, who was set to be executed this week for a murder in which he didn't pull the trigger.

Cedric Ricks is set to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the murder of 30-year-old Roxann Sanchez and her 8-year-old Anthony.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old inmate who was set to be executed this week even though he was not in the building when the victim was killed during a 1991 ...

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice in a 1991 murder from execution on Thursday.

The mother of Genesis Nova Reid is now facing capital murder and corpse abuse charges. Adrienne Reid was charged with capital murder and corpse abuse on March 9, the same day ...

No tears should be spared for the Soham killer who murdered two beautiful little girls whose whole lives lay in front of them.