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

"Something is rotten in Denmark," the state wrote in a Dec. 20 motion. The judge is accused of having improper communication with a defense attorney in a death penalty case.

Lawyers for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed are urging a federal appeals panel to let his scheduled guilty ...

A death row inmate from Branchville is scheduled to be executed on Jan. 31, according to an order issued Friday by the South ...

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

After 23 years, the fate of the last remaining Guantanamo detainees swept up worldwide after al-Qaida’s shattering attacks on ...

A federal trial date is set for the man accused of killing a woman and kidnapping her daughters in the deadly Amber Alert ...

For the past several weeks, a major challenge to Kansas’ death penalty has been underway in a Wyandotte County murder case.

A lethal injection expert has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to deny the attorney general's request for an execution warrant ...

Palm Beach County prosecutors want to seek the death penalty in the November 2021 fatal stabbing of Ryan Rogers, 14, of ...

Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis have filed emergency petitions seeking to block the commutations of their death sentences.

Aaron Gunches asked the Arizona Supreme Court to issue an expedited execution warrant for him more than a decade after he was ...