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

Attorney General Pam Bondi previously singled out the case as an example where federal prosectors could seek capital charges.

If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson ...

Trying to end capital punishment state-by-state was difficult at best, so death penalty abolitionists turned much of their efforts to the courts. They finally succeeded on June 29, 1972 in the ...

Japan has executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer,” who was convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people, mostly ...

Gudinas's execution is Florida's seventh this year. And already, Governor Ron DeSantis has signed an 8th warrant—tying the ...

A death row inmate’s attorneys are asking the court to reverse a lower court’s decision that declined to decide eligibility ...

The move, one official said, would help the country extradite suspects from abroad. It would also spare the life of a ...