The Eighth Amendment. What is cruel and unusual punishment? Who gets to define and decide the amendment's boundaries? And how ...

Payton Gendron, already serving life in prison for a state conviction, faces a potential death penalty in a federal trial ...

Pope Leo XIV called the death penalty "inadmissible" on World Day Against the Death Penalty after the Pentagon announced ...

Florida killer who murdered his cellmate just to get death penalty finally faces execution - A Florida prisoner who claimed ...

Recently, the spotlight has been on a failed lethal injection in Tennessee and the announcement that a federal execution will ...

He pleaded not guilty to the charge last week. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

Florida is set to execute James Robertson, 63, by lethal injection, at 12 p.m. today, Oct. 13, for killing his cellmate to ...

A BRITISH woman facing the death penalty in Dubai has been left to suffer in a grim cell after prosecution witnesses failed ...

The jury member sent an email to the judge that had him being excused from the trial. CBS News Miami's Nikiya Carrero was in ...

There will be no clemency for Todd Wessinger,” Gov. Jeff Landry said in a statement. “We stand firmly with the victims and ...

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that leakers of sensitive military information should "go to jail or be shot." ...

James Robertson was convicted of murdering Frank Hart, who reportedly was only days away from release at the time ...