Two men accused of homicide in Pennsylvania are asking the state Supreme Court to limit a prosecutor's use of the death ...

A group of Philadelphia attorneys specializing in capital murder cases is asking the state Supreme Court to restrict ...

Indiana is set to execute Roy Lee Ward on October 10th for the 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne. Ward ...

Beshear, a rising star in the Democratic Party, is not a prominent and outspoken abolitionist. In fact, during an October ...

More than 70% of counties around the world have banned the death penalty, including the European Union. And yet in the U.S., ...

Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute takes ...

Thirty years ago, the film “Dead Man Walking” had its debut in movie theaters around the United States. It was a box office ...

Indiana is grappling with the high cost and short shelf life of the drug pentobarbital, which is used in executions.

When capital punishment was more common, it was easy to claim that people are executed because they are criminals. But now that fewer criminals receive the death penalty, that's no longer the case ...

An Alabama legislator wants to expand the number of circumstances that can allow the death penalty to be imposed. Rep. Matt ...