On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

The court had earlier vacated Darrell Robinson's conviction and death sentence in a brutal quadruple murder in Rapides Parish ...

A Harrisburg man potentially facing the death penalty just fired his public defender and told a judge he would represent ...

Adel Ramos was given a death penalty sentence for the killing of Sacramento police officer Tara O'Sullivan​ in June 2019, the ...

Vietnam has lifted the death penalty for eight crimes in legal reforms that may spare the life of a real estate tycoon ...

More than 200 Civil rights groups urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to use his powers to commute California's more than 500 death ...

For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman ...

Vietnam will remove the death penalty for eight offences from next month, including embezzlement and activities aimed at ...

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA ...