The Wyandotte County District Court in Kansas City, Kan. Robert A. Cronkleton [email protected] A Wyandotte County judge strongly questioned Kansas’ death penalty but stopped short of striking it ...

Clark County prosecutors are reviewing whether to seek the death penalty in a deadly crash that killed three people last ...

When the state decides to take a life, the rationale behind it should be crystal clear, as should the series of decisions that propel inmates from their death row cells to the execution chamber. Gov.

States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions occur while others try to scale them back or end them entirely.

Eye rolls, gestures and interruptions in a "conundrum" of a case about how to measure intellectual disability in death ...

Almost all of Arizona's elected officials are declining to answer questions about a special investigation into Maricopa County’s death penalty cases that revealed extreme secrecy, high costs, and ...

A federal judge Tuesday rejected Payton Gendron’s motion to dismiss the death penalty as a potential punishment because of what his lawyers called the government’s abuse of the grand jury process.

Seth P. Waxman, Smith’s lawyer, told the justices that the lower federal courts in his client’s case correctly applied ...

Nick Reiner has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his parents, prosecutors say. Under ...

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday rejected two challenges to a 2023 law that allows judges to impose death sentences without unanimous jury recommendations.

"Death sentences are the most serious sanctions that governments can inflict on human beings, so all must be carefully reviewed for accuracy and fairness before an execution is scheduled," said Robin ...

This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Ruben Gutierrez. Texas was set on Tuesday, June 16, 2020, to end its more than four-month delay in executions due to the ...