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Death penalty cases cost taxpayers significantly more than cases where inmates serve life sentences. Capital cases are more ...

Billy Leon Kearse spent 29 years on death row for killing Fort Pierce police Sgt. Danny Parrish in 1991 — and the case likely ...

Lawyers are in the process of assembling potential jurors for Payton Gendron's federal death penalty case, jury ...

For the first time in more than 200 years, Tennessee is preparing to execute a woman on death row. Christa Gail Pike’s case ...

Eating meet and using contraceptives were widely accepted, but one thing was clearly seen as immoral.

Anti-capital punishment advocates say the death penalty is costlier to taxpayers than life in prison because many defendants appeal their sentences, and the appeals process can force victims’ families ...

Adam Sheafe previously said he targeted the pastor because he believed him to be preaching "the opposite of what God said." ...

Travis Scott and Young Thug are a few of the rappers backing the Dallas man convicted for a 2008 murder, requesting the ...

If legislators in the House and Senate can reach a compromise, convictions of sexual battery against children will be ...

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The Lackawanna County District Attorney has filed to seek the death penalty against ...