L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman says he will allow prosecutors in his office to consider pursuing the death penalty, a ...

Karmelo Anthony, 17, is charged with first-degree murder for allegedly killing Austin Metcalf during an altercation at an April 2 track meet, police said.

A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with ...

The four men arrested after a shoe was thrown at President William Ruto during a public rally in Kuria West, Migori county, ...

Hunter, 38, and Troy Victorino, 48, are back in court 19 years after they were first sentenced to death, but the sentences ...

An Illinois man tried to kidnap a student from a school in Buffalo, New York, and fled after punching and shoving an employee ...

Attorneys for a Utah man who has been on death row for 37 years are seeking to convince a state judge to spare the convicted ...

Jeff Hood, a priest living in North Little Rock, has witnessed nine executions. As a spiritual adviser to men on death row, ...

Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, disgraced by a corruption scandal that landed him in prison yet heralded by some for ...

The Tennessean rightly observed that despite Trump’s Justice Department’s gung-ho approach to the death penalty ... at the University of Richmond School of Law, minces no words in her ...

Joe Sexton’s sweeping narrative ‘The Hardest Case for Mercy’ explored the efforts to spare the life of the Parkland school ...

The teenager charged with murdering high school football star Austin Metcalf at a Texas track meet will not face the death penalty if he’s convicted at trial, according to the local District ...