He was convicted of murder in San Joaquin County for killing his wife and her unborn child.

Bangladeshi national Shahidul Islam, 44, allegedly killed his sister-in-law in Lake County, Florida, then fled to a sanctuary ...

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

On July 2, 1976, the United States Supreme Court decided Gregg v. Georgia, ruling that capital punishment does not violate ...

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 ...

The Ohio Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of the last Wagner family member awaiting trial for the Pike County ...

A man accused of fatally stabbing a 66-year-old woman on a MARTA train has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge that carries the death penalty.

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 penalty inmates before completing his final term as governor in January ...

A Utah judge is apparently pissed that prosecutors in Tyler Robinson's murder trial blabbed to the press in violation of a gag order ... but the death penalty is still on the table. Utah Judge Tony ...

Florida is in the process of executing three of its oldest death row inmates back to back — each one older than the last.