An advocacy group is urging Florida to stop executing veterans convicted of murder. Veterans are center stage in two of ...

President Donald Trump's administration has been pushing for the death penalty, but judges are blocking attempts to reverse ...

On Monday, Judge Taylor Heaton of the 114th District Court said he will have his court officials set the first trial among ...

El Mayo,” the elderly Mexican drug lord who took over “El Chapo’s” notorious cartel, skirted the death penalty in Brooklyn ...

Accused Mexican drug kingpin and El Chapo partner Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia pleaded guilty in Brooklyn to running a ...

The scheduled execution comes amid an elevated number of executions in Florida and nationwide in 2025, and it highlights ...

In 2000, it cost about $24 million for each execution via the electric chair, as reported by the Palm Street Post.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond asked the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to switch the execution dates of two ...

Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty for a man accused of fatally shooting two police officers in northern Utah last ...

Jury selection begins Aug. 25 in the expected week-long trial of death-row inmate Sean Shannon Finnegan on criminal charges ...

Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for the three people accused of robbing, killing and leaving a Dallas-Fort Worth ...