A Houston-area man convicted of killing his wife died this week after more than three decades on death row, marking the ...

The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.

Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen, who fervently sought Richard Farley’s sentence reduction, just walked away.

Defense attorneys for Teresa Youngblut file a motion against the DOJ's accelerated capital punishment process after Border ...

Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 execution. In Nashville’s ...

Bryan Kohberger appeared expressionless as a judge asked if he murdered four Idaho college students in their off-campus home, ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to murder Wednesday in the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of ...

Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students as part of a deal with prosecutors ...

Bryan Kohberger has pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder and burglary in the deadly stabbing of four ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi previously singled out the case as an example where federal prosectors could seek capital charges.

A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...