Fifty years ago, Americans set out on a polarizing mission: to find a just and fair way to punish the worst of the worst crimes by execution. In some ways, this was a surprising choice. In 1972, a ...

The February death by lethal injection of convicted killer Ronald Heath, 64, came amid a surge in executions pushed forwards ...

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The Marshall Project reports on the 50th anniversary of Gregg v. Georgia, the Supreme Court ruling that reinstated the U.S.

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

A conservative federal judge on Wednesday took the position that despite a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring the death ...

A Utah judge is apparently pissed that prosecutors in Tyler Robinson's murder trial blabbed to the press in violation of a ...

Clark County prosecutors may seek the death penalty against the man accused of shooting and killing the mother of his ...

Charlie Kirk's accused assassin Tyler Robinson could still face the potential death penalty if convicted of aggravated murder ...

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The latest Nancy Guthrie ransom note is a sign her kidnapper is angling to avoid the death penalty if caught, according to a ...

Accused Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson will still face the death penalty — despite a judge on Friday ruling that ...