Victims of the inmates include a family of four, a college student kidnapped from her bedroom, and a state trooper who was ...

Ohio's death penalty law is in limbo. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: the status quo isn't working.

Thirty-five men have died by court-ordered executions in the U.S. so far this year, including one early Friday, with seven ...

Not surprisingly, the conservative-dominated, pro-death-penalty majority on the Supreme Court was not interested in righting ...

Florida on Tuesday executed a 72-year-old man for the 1996 murders of two women, as the state continues its record pace of ...

Missouri on Tuesday executed its first death-row inmate of this year, killing Lance Shockley for the 2005 murder of a state ...

Missouri executed a death row inmate for fatally shooting a state trooper in 2005. The inmate, Lance Shockley, says he did ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a presidential memorandum seeking to reinstate the death penalty in Washington, DC, ...

Three suspects were arrested after police found over $4,000 worth of stolen merchandise in Irvine. The suspects were ...

Of the past 10 people who have faced execution in Missouri, at least six had children. For kids of people on death row, there ...

A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student was put to death ...