Indiana teen will spend more than 40 years in prison for murder of 20-year-old - Jeremy Briscoe, 16, was charged as an adult ...

Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward as planned after a federal appeals court overturned a ...

Six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year, and 12 other people are scheduled to be executed in six states ...

Mikal Mahdi burned the body of Orangeburg County Deputy James Edward Myers after shooting him 9 times. The death row inmate ...

John Feinstein, a sportswriter and bestselling author of books including 'A Season on the Brink' and 'A Good Walk Spoiled,' ...

Even as President Donald Trump and other national Republican leaders push to expand the use of capital punishment, some GOP-led states are moving in the opposite direction.

John Feinstein, a bestselling author of 50 books and a longtime Washington Post sports writer and columnist, died at the age of 68 Thursday.

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A Nebraska death row inmate penned a motion expressing his wishes to dismiss past conviction appeals and to set an execution date.

Louisiana has hit a roadblock in its plan to resume executions after a 15-year pause. At issue is the method -- death by nitrogen gas -- an which has been used only a handful of times in Alabama and ...

Minutes apart, courts in the neighboring states of Louisiana and Texas each stopped upcoming executions, one on Thursday and another on Tuesday.

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the ...