Vietnam has lifted the death penalty for eight crimes in legal reforms that may spare the life of a real estate tycoon ...

A Harrisburg man potentially facing the death penalty just fired his public defender and told a judge he would represent ...

The court had earlier vacated Darrell Robinson's conviction and death sentence in a brutal quadruple murder in Rapides Parish ...

Vietnam will remove the death penalty for eight offences from next month, including embezzlement and activities aimed at ...

For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

A coalition of California and national civil rights leaders called on Governor Gavin Newsom to commute the death sentences of ...

The Indiana Attorney General's Office requested an execution date on Friday for death row inmate Roy Lee Ward, the Spencer County man convicted in 2007 for the rape and murder of 15‑year‑old Stacy ...

Clive Crook is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and member of the editorial board covering economics. Previously, he was deputy editor of the Economist and chief Washington commentator for the Financial ...

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA ...

Two Utah death row cases tied to murders in the 1980s are seeing new movement, with one facing a possible retrial and another ...

A former federal prosecutor said a media leak in the Bryan Kohberger murder case has the potential to take the death penalty ...