The Department of Justice released a report proposing the reinstatement and expansion of controversial federal execution ...

In a move that could soon end nearly 30 years of continuous incarceration, an Oklahoma judge has granted bond to Richard ...

Since the Citizens United decision of 2010, the justices have dismantled Americans’ voices. The only solution is at the ballot box ...

The US Department of Justice reintroduces firing squads for federal executions, citing drug shortages, sparking ethical and legal debates over capital punishment methods.

Richard Glossip was released on bond Thursday, a major victory for the former death row inmate who has come so close to ...

Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson remains uncertain about the possibility of an execution in Nevada, even after saying he wanted three convicted killers put to death. “I am a gambler, but I ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative ...

A judge has decided former death row inmate Richard Glossip can get out of jail on a $500,000 bond as he awaits his third trial in his 1997 murder-for-hire case. Oklahoma County District Judge Natalie ...

On Tuesday, April 21, at 6:15 p.m., the state of Florida pronounced Chadwick Willacy dead at Florida State Prison near Starke. He was 58 years old and had spent more than three decades on death row ...

The US is one of very few Western nations still using the death penalty, although public support for capital punishment has ...

It has varied over the decades, as public opinion sways for and against it. Hangings were frequent in colonial times, but by the mid-1800s some states had abolished the death penalty altogether. In ...