Washington County Coroner Timothy Warco is claiming he was coerced by District Attorney Jason Walsh to file a baby's death as ...

Within hours of the suspicious death of a Peters Township baby in Pittsburgh in 2022, the Washington County district attorney ...

Edward Zakrzewski was sentenced to death for using a crowbar, a rope and a machete to murder his wife and two children in ...

Historically, the death penalty is as old as civilisation itself, accepted and institutionalised across cultures and religions. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, scriptures speak of “life for life, ...

Iran has more than doubled state executions in 2024 with at least 612 people killed compared to 297 in the same period last ...

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 ...

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

The call came after the Senate on July 18 approved the Criminal Laws (Amendment) Bill, which stipulated replacing the death ...

Over the past few decades Americans have been inundated with the news of violent crimes. It has gotten to a point that when a ...

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

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

An Alabama state judge has ordered a mental health evaluation to see if a man on death row with a history of mental illness is competent to be executed. The judge has temporarily stayed the Aug.