death penalty

Melissa Lucio, a Texas mother of 14, has been on death row since 2008 after she was convicted of killing her 2-year-old daughter. Her execution was delayed just two days before she was scheduled to die to allow a lower court to review new evidence — including arguments that her confession was coerced. Molly Parmer, a criminal defense attorney who...

More than four years after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, the procedure to determine the gunman’s fate is has begun with jury selection.

During hours of relentless questioning, Melissa Lucio more than 100 times had denied fatally beating her 2-year-old daughter.

The Supreme Court ruled Friday to reimpose the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

California, which last carried out an execution in 2006, is one of 28 states that maintain death rows, along with the U.S. government

An attorney for two Oklahoma death row inmates facing executions in the coming months offered firing squad as a less problematic alternative to the state’s three-drug lethal injection.

Medical experts say it’s unclear why an Oklahoma inmate began convulsing and vomiting after the first of three drugs used to execute him was administered

Willie B. Smith III, who avoided execution in February, has been put to death for the 1991 killing of a woman abducted during a robbery and then shot in a cemetery.

Daybell was also charged in his previous wife’s death. Court documents filed Thursday revealed that the Fremont County Prosecutor’s Office will seek the death penalty in that case as well.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments this fall over whether Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev can be put to death.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against an Alabama inmate whose lawyers argued he had ineffective counsel at his trial.

Despite President Joe Biden’s public opposition to capital punishment, his administration supported an appeal first filed by his predecessor in a 48-page brief filed with the Supreme Court.

The South Carolina House has voted to add the firing squad to the state’s execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs

Virginia has become the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty

An Associated Press review of court filings shows executioners who put 13 inmates to death during the Trump presidency offered sanitized, incomplete versions of the executions to judges

Alabama would be the first state to carry out an execution this year if it wins final court approval to go ahead with plans to put to death a man convicted of murder

Dozens of civil rights and advocacy organizations are calling on the Biden administration to immediately halt federal executions after an unprecedented run of capital punishment under President Donald Trump

Joe Biden is the first sitting president to openly oppose the death penalty, and officials say he’s discussed the possibility of instructing the Justice Department to stop scheduling new executions.

The Trump administration has carried out its 13th and final federal execution, five days before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in

A judge has granted a stay in what was slated to be the U.S. government’s first execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades — a Kansas woman who killed an expectant mother in Missouri, cut the baby from her womb and passed off the newborn as her own.