"Death sentences are the most serious sanctions that governments can inflict on human beings, so all must be carefully reviewed for accuracy and fairness before an execution is scheduled," said Robin ...

First came the Manhattan shooting death of a health insurance CEO. In the months that followed, a young couple working for ...

15 MINUTES. CAMERON. YEAH, BACK TO THE BREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING. OKLAHOMA DEATH ROW INMATE TRAMAINE WOOD WAS JUST SAVED FROM EXECUTION AT THE LAST MINUTE. A DRAMATIC MOVE FROM GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT ...

A rise in executions in the United States in 2025 occurred alongside “shifting public opinion” against the death penalty, ...

If Christa Gail Pike's execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a ...

A South Korean court trying former President Yoon Suk Yeol on insurrection charges put off a sentencing request till next ...

Maricopa County prosecutors have frequently pursued the death penalty, but just 13% of cases ended in a death sentence, ...

A judge has approved the death sentence for a man convicted of killing a prison guard in Somerset County. Sgt. Mark Baserman, 61, was punched repeatedly and kicked in the head in 2018 by inmate Paul ...

The fatal stabbing on a Charlotte light-rail train last month has prompted calls for the revival of the death penalty in North Carolina. North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger said Thursday he wants ...

Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade. The execution of a Georgia man scheduled for Wednesday has ...