Nick Reiner has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his parents, prosecutors say. Under California law, that makes him eligible for the death penalty.

Robert Badinter, the former lawyer and justice minister who persuaded France to give up the guillotine, will be laid to rest in the Panthéon on October 9, the anniversary of the 1981 abolition of the ...

Fewer Americans support capital punishment. Fewer courts are handing out death sentences. And we’ve got way more executions ...

So far, 11 states have carried out 45 executions this year, nearly double the number in 2024, even as public opinion ...

At least four of the 37 men whose sentences were commuted last year could face the death penalty at the state level after a ...