Two dozen men are under sentences of death sought by Sacramento County prosecutors and imposed by local juries, state data ...

On December 30, two men filed handwritten, emergency petitions from the death row unit in USP Terre Haute, a federal prison ...

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said Monday that tying the debt limit to California aid for the recent deadly wildfires it has ...

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

A man who killed his estranged wife with his nephew's help is now bound for Death Row, while his nephew was sentenced to life ...

Two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden have ...

In an unusual court proceeding that began in October, the ACLU and other attorneys asserted that Kansas' death penalty law ...

The president has signed several executive orders and acts into law during his lame duck period that make Trump's agenda harder to implement immediately.

Wife of murder victim Jon Johnson, Karen Johnson, hugs jury member Fred Young on May 12, 2010, outside the Sacramento ...

Two ex-Fed Med inmates taken off death row by Biden clemency ...

Aaron Gunches, convicted of killing his girlfriends ex-husband in 2002 and sentenced to death, has been asking for his expedited execution and he could get his wish soon.