A Tuesday filing says Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh misuses capital punishment to pressure defendants into ...

A group of Philadelphia attorneys specializing in capital murder cases is asking the state Supreme Court to restrict ...

Travis Posey on Monday pleaded guilty in a Ouachita County courtroom to four counts of capital murder and 11 counts of attempted capital murder in the June 2024 mass shooting at the Mad Butcher ...

Indiana is scheduled to execute Roy Lee Ward for raping and murdering 15-year-old Stacy Payne in 2001. Ward waited for ...

The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria has thrown its weight behind the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control’s proposal seeking the death penalty for individuals found guilty of ...

Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute goes ...

Trump comments on Bryan Kohberger's plea deal in the Idaho student murders case, urging the judge to require an explanation ...

Teresa Youngblut's attorneys said the court was rushing the process that could determine whether or not the government could seek capital punishment in the case. The government opposed that ...

Ending capital punishment would advance South Korea’s transition to a democracy that respects human rights, including the right to life.

Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute takes ...