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

A Sacramento judge on Friday formally imposed the death penalty for Adel Ramos, who pleaded guilty to the ambush killing of ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Mexico has announced its intent to seek the death penalty for a Zuni Pueblo man accused of ...

A former federal prosecutor said a media leak in the Bryan Kohberger murder case has the potential to take the death penalty off the table.

Indiana attorneys have sent a request to the Indiana Supreme Court on Friday to announce the date for death row inmate ...

Sentencing will happen Friday for the man who ambushed and murdered Sacramento Police Department Officer Tara O'Sullivan.

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