DeWine urged the state to abolish the death penalty, citing data showing it no longer deters crime.

The Lackawanna County district attorney’s decision to seek death penalty in the case of a man accused of killing two women in ...

Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, who has repeatedly postponed executions over the past seven years, said Tuesday that Ohio should abolish the death penalty, confirming his change of heart on the policy he ...

What if death row prisoners participated in political debate? Do people sentenced to death agree with Gov. Mike DeWine? He ...

In 2008, a majority of the Supreme Court decided that executing a man who raped his eight-year-old stepdaughter so violently ...

Gov. Mike DeWine, who’ll turn 80 on Jan. 5, isn’t likely to run for office again, so however and whatever he does about death ...

Like Gov. Mike DeWine, most agreed the death penalty is broken and does not deter crime, but not always with the same ...

A Utah judge denied Tyler Robinson's bid to force his former roommate and lover Lance Twiggs to testify at a preliminary hearing and ruled hearsay evidence will be allowed — dealing the defense two ...

A conservative federal judge on Wednesday took the position that despite a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring the death penalty for child rape, prosecutors today may be free to seek capital ...

State prosecutors began the process for setting a schedule in the man’s trial where the state is seeking a death sentence.

Dusty Ray Spencer, 74, would become the oldest person put to death in Florida since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, and the ninth man executed in Florida this year.

Jessica Motes faces several charges, including malice murder, felony murder, aggravated battery, concealing the death of ...