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

Molly Elliott's husband is speaking out for the first time in three decades as Jessie Hoffman's Louisiana execution, set for ...

Mason was airlifted to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa, where he was diagnosed with swelling and severe bleeding of the brain.

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

South Carolina inmate Brad Keith Sigmon was executed by firing squad March 7 for killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents, David ...

Legislation proposed by a Susquehanna Valley lawmaker would abolish the death penalty in Pennsylvania. House Bill 888 would remove the death penalty as an option for punishment for first-degree murder ...

Back in December, 42-year-old Richard Chambers was captured by law enforcement after an alleged killing spree.

Glenn Ford taught me that every chance for life matters. It was easy to see why: prosecutors told the court Glenn was innocent 30 years after he was wrongly convicted of murder and sent to Death Row.

Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last ...

A Lebanon County Republican state lawmaker has introduced legislation to eliminate the death penalty in Pennsylvania, which he said aligns with "pro-life values." On March 13, Rep. Russ Diamond ...

While he was supposed to die at the hands of the state, California abolished the death penalty in 1972 — which resulted in ...