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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...