Paul “Greg” House, who spent more than two decades on Tennessee's death row before he was finally freed, has died.
Lawyers for a Florida man on death row are seeking to halt his execution set for next week, arguing that his obesity could ...
A Georgia bill that would ease the state's tough death penalty law is on track to become law. It is illegal in every U.S.
Georgia is the only state with the death penalty that requires defendants to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they are ...
The morbidly obese killer’s defense team argued his planned lethal injection would violate the Eighth Amendment, which protects against forms of cruel and unusual punishment.
A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its ...
LA District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced that county prosecutors will once again be permitted to seek the death penalty.
A bill could make firing squads and lethal gas options in Florida executions as a shortage of pentobarbital, used for lethal ...
District Attorney James Montoya explain his decision not to seek the death penalty in the Walmart mass shooting case. A plea ...
Pointing to his obesity and other medical conditions, lawyers for Death Row inmate Michael Tanzi are trying to halt his ...
The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 in one of the the deadliest mass shootings ...
Capital punishment in Japan is under scrutiny again after the world's longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, was awarded $1.4 million in compensation this week following his acquittal ...