Prosecutors won't say why they withdrew their intent to seek the death penalty against a couple accused of murdering their ...

The measure would remove the death penalty as a sentencing option, leaving life imprisonment without the possibility of ...

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

The latest schedule of executions in the United States is another grim reminder that capital punishment remains an entrenched ...

State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her ...

If it seems like death penalty cases drag out in the courts already, new legislation introduced on Thursday would ensure that ...

Brittany Holberg, 52, has spent more than a quarter of a century on death row before a federal appeals court tossed out her ...

After the woman spent 27 years on death row for killing an 80-year-old man, the court found that prosecutors failed to reveal ...

U.S. Supreme Court blocked Louisiana’s law in 2008; Rep. Bruce Skaug thinks nation’s high court will rule differently ...

David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly ...

Lebanon County District Attorney Pier Hess Graf has stated she will be seeking the death penalty for Alex Torres-Santos and Ivan Claudio-Rosero for homicide charges. Both men were allegedly involved ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals did not clarify why it halted the execution of David Wood in its order granting the stay.