Slaying of four people at Kansas City, Kansas, bar prompts constitutional challenge to Kansas' jury selection method in death ...

There are a lot of reasons that the death penalty is almost never imposed anymore. As a growing cadre of experts has ...

Tennessee's Department of Correction has released a redacted version of its newly completed execution manual after initially ...

The Biden administration successfully delayed a plea deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused 9/11 mastermind, that would ...

"Something is rotten in Denmark," the state wrote in a Dec. 20 motion. The judge is accused of having improper communication ...

In recent times the recurrent increase in the incidents of murder and crimes of violence has shocked our communities. A sense of insecurity has wrapped around the collective horror confronting ...

The fight has put the Biden administration at odds with the US military officials it had appointed to oversee justice in ...

Prosecutors say they are planning to seek the death penalty for the man charged with killing two people and injuring several ...

The U.S. had filed an appeal to stop plea proceedings for alleged 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two others from moving forward Friday in the war court in Guantanamo Bay.

Yoni Barrios pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges including murder and terrorism in connection with a barrage of stabbings on the Strip in October 2022.

Zimbabwe hasn’t executed anyone who was sentenced to death since 2005. With the passing of the Death Penalty Abolition Act ...

In an appeal, the Justice Department argued the government would be irreparably harmed if the pleas were accepted.