U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced she will direct the DOJ to pursue the death penalty at the state level against the ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court of California met in Sacramento on Wednesday to hear oral arguments in the case of an arsonist sentenced to ...

The accused assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson gets a free death penalty expert under federal law, and will be ...

A federal judge in New York on Tuesday appointed a death penalty expert to the defense team of Luigi Mangione, the man ...

Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

An Oklahoma board has rejected clemency for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion ...

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death ...

A death penalty date for Wendell Grissom will stand after the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denied him clemency on ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — The appeal of an arsonist facing the death penalty in California reached the state’s highest court ...

Indonesia has handed over to French authorities a man on death row for drug offences who will start his return to his home ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was handed the death penalty for killing of the 28-year-old during a robbery gone wrong - having ...