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

Prosecutors are gearing up to try their first death penalty trials against Xavier Davis and Oscar Rosales under District ...

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

Tennessee is expected to resume its death penalty soon, after executions were halted for years while the state's process was ...

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

The Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s ruling that had upheld death row inmate Richard Glossip’s murder conviction.

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 ...

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 ...

His trial is expected to begin in August. Summaries of court documents in the case show the defense filed a motion Monday “to Strike Death Penalty RE: Autism Spectrum Disorder.” A “Motion to ...

BOISE, Idaho — The defense team for Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022, may seek the removal of the death penalty as a sentencing option ...

Richard Glossip’s Supreme Court case became a focal point in the national debate over the death penalty, which critics say is ...