A new Mississippi law allows the death penalty for sexual battery of a child under 12, but critics warn capital punishment ...

Oklahoma, Tennessee and Alabama carried out executions on the same day in a rare event, ending three very different death penalty cases.

A Phoenix woman accused of forcing a sex worker into a suitcase and leaving her in the desert has pleaded guilty to ...

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for the three women who allegedly tied up an emaciated 6-year-old and kept her in a ...

Alabama executed 41-year-old Jeremy Williams by lethal injection on August 13, following his guilty plea to capital murder ...

In 1981, then-state Sen. Mike DeWine co-sponsored Ohio Senate Bill 1, reinstating the death penalty in Ohio. DeWine has said ...

Unless Alabama can deliver what it promised Jeffrey Lee, it should not be allowed to put him to death.

In 2014, a police team had gone to arrest the accused in a criminal case when he allegedly pulled out a pistol and fired at the inspector. The officer succumbed to the injury in a hospital.

Leticia Diane McCormack is accused of the torture and murder of her daughter Arabella in San Diego County, Calif.

Luigi Mangione escaped the federal death penalty after a judge dismissed the murder charge, but he still faces life and state ...