A Bibb County grand jury indicted five Alabama men and two women in the case. They face accusations of raping, sodomizing and ...

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall will host a press conference regarding a new bill dealing with the state’s death ...

Their legislation, originally sponsored in the Alabama House in the 2025 regular session, would have given prosecutors ...

A group of lawyers who defend people facing capital punishment has asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to take extraordinary ...

Tennessee’s Supreme Court says Byron Black’s execution can proceed over worries a medical device may prolong his death.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall will hold a news conference Thursday morning to discuss legislation aimed at expanding the use of capital punishment.

Beshear, a rising star in the Democratic Party, is not a prominent and outspoken abolitionist. In fact, during an October ...

For the last decade or so, those opposed to capital punishment have been repeating the same mantra as a way to mark the progress of their campaign to end state killing in this country: The number of ...

Rep. Matt Simpson (R-District 96) has prefiled House Bill 20, which calls for an expansion of possible capital punishment ...

Capital punishment could emerge as a major campaign issue in the U.S. presidential race for the first time in 30 years, with top GOP candidates already one-upping each other by touting tougher ...

INDIANA – Indiana is set to execute Roy Lee Ward on October 10th for the 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne.