Autopsy reveals difficulty with IV insertions during executions in Arizona, raising concerns about medical practices for ...

On Jan. 17, 2006, California carried out what would turn out to be the last execution in the Golden State in the next two ...

President Duma Boko on Friday allayed citizens’ fears that the establishment of the Constitutional Court will be a guise to ...

The U.S. carried out 47 executions in 2025—the highest total in years—despite falling public support, fewer death sentences, ...

Lawmakers repealed the state's death penalty law in 2019, but Gov. Kelly Ayotte says she'd like to bring it back. Meanwhile, ...

Opponents of the death penalty turned out in big numbers in Concord again Thursday to speak against legislation to bring ...

A Florida death-row inmate cleared of murder charges and the survivors of several New Hampshire homicide victims emotionally ...

An Alabama House committee Wednesday approved two bills that would expand the list of criminal offenses eligible for the ...

Lawmakers in Concord have opened hearings on several bills that would reinstate the death penalty in New Hampshire. The House ...

Right now, anyone convicted of raping or sodomizing a child 5 years old or younger in Alabama can be sentenced to life ...

People convicted of rape or sodomy of a child younger than 12 would face the death penalty under a bill that advanced ...

Lawyers for a man accused of kidnapping and killing a 7-year-old Texas girl in 2022 are asking a judge to take the death ...