Ramos pleaded guilty to killing Sacramento police rookie Tara O’Sullivan, but a prior jury deadlocked on whether he should be put to death.

The U.S. Supreme Court's current term includes cases involving guns, gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, ...

Melly could be sentenced to death by a non-unanimous jury — a practice with deep roots in Jim Crow — if convicted in a double ...

Defendants attorneys lodged three motions to bar the death penalty from being imposed. A judge rejected their arguments in ...

The state's highest court upheld a law transferring more control of death penalty cases from local district attorneys to the ...

According to the recently published annual report on the death penalty in Iran by the Iran Human Rights Organization (IHR) and the French NGO Ensemble Contre la Peine de Mort (ECPM), at least 975 ...

Oklahoma death-row inmate Richard Glossip is pictured in a 2016 photo taken by his attorney. The U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 25, 2025, threw out the murder conviction and death penalty for Glossip ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - A Vermont man could face the death penalty as a result of new federal charges. It’s in connection with a double homicide, where two bodies were found ditched in Eden.

Landry’s decision is significant in part because until recently, Louisiana was part of a group I call the death penalty “swing states”—states that have the death penalty on the books but ...

Death penalty opponents are praising the decision, arguing it should be an example for how other cases are treated. Lack of faith in a fair trial The central argument behind the Supreme Court's ...