What is the cost of life in prison versus death penalty in Idaho? A debate erupted when prosecutors announced they reached a plea deal for Bryan Kohberger, allowing him to avoid the death penalty.

A debate erupted when prosecutors announced they reached a plea deal for Bryan Kohberger, allowing him to avoid the death penalty.

Petition to state Supreme Court says Pennsylvania DA is abusing power to seek death penalty A team of defense attorneys filed a petition against the Washington County district attorney on Tuesday ...

Nine-year-old Melina Frattolin died by drowning, according to a preliminary autopsy on the little Canadian tourist allegedly killed by her dad in upstate New York.

After 40 years on death row, Douglas Carter was ordered Tuesday to move from the state prison to the Utah County Jail to await a new murder trial.

Jorge Barahona, facing the death penalty in one of Florida’s most heinous child abuse cases, is in court this week for a competency hearing.

A Tuesday filing says Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh misuses capital punishment to pressure defendants into guilty pleas or to force their cooperation.

A federal judge in Vermont has refused to delay a decision on whether a woman charged in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent will face the death penalty. In an order made public Monday, Chief ...

A group of capital defense attorneys is asking the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to limit the Washington County district attorney’s use of the death penalty.

It’s been more than 100 years since Minnesota’s last state execution. The state abolished capital punishment in 1911. Federal prosecutors have not sought the death penalty in a Minnesota-based ...

A February trial date is set for a man who faces the death penalty if convicted on charges of killing three people in a daylong series of shootings in Memphis that was livestreamed on social media.