George Ryan, who served as Illinois secretary of state, Illinoia House speaker, lieutenant governor and ultimately governor, ...

Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Mississippi death row inmate’s convictions for the slayings of eight people, ...

After finding Cousins, 48, guilty of capital murder last week, a jury in Criminal District Court No. 3 in Tarrant County on ...

Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled to die on May 22, declined to select a method meaning it ...

The top federal prosecutor in Luigi Mangione's case has been recused, according to a letter to Judge Margaret M. Garnett on ...

A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...

Judge Steven Hippler denied a motion on Tuesday from Bryan Kohberger's defense team that asked to remove the death penalty as ...

It's unclear whether federal law was even broken when UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed on a New York street.

The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the India Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and the Indian Consulate at Indonesia to ...