Efforts to abolish capital punishment in Ohio are heating up with a bipartisan bill that has drawn the support of former ...

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Turner, one of the prosecutors in the case, said during the brief hearing in federal court in Burlington that U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi had “authorized” the ...

Alabama’s execution of Anthony Boyd on Thursday added to the growing number of executions for the year. Boyd was the 40th ...

Federal prosecutors won’t pursue the death penalty against John Pfeffer, the alleged Bandidos leader accused in a deadly ...

Several news organizations, including Tennessean publisher Gannett, have sued two state corrections officials for greater ...

Ohio House Bill 36 would allow nitrogen hypoxia as a form of execution for prisoners awaiting capital punishment. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost spoke out in support of the bill in front of the House ...

North Carolina’s “Iryna’s Law,” signed by Governor Josh Stein, enforces stricter criminal procedures and sets the stage for ...

Alabama's execution of Anthony Boyd using nitrogen gas as a method of capital punishment has raised national concern over the use of the method, with witnesses describing the execution as ...

Ohio's death penalty law is in limbo. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: the status quo isn't working.

“It costs close to a quarter million (dollars) for one dose,” Dr. John Feczko, a pathologist who performed the state’s ...

The court pronounced the death penalty to the accused Chandrasekhar, GS Venkatachalapathi, Jayaprakash Reddy, Manjunath and ...

Chittoor mayor Katari Anuradha and her husband were killed inside a municipal corporation office in 2015. | Latest News India ...