Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman will lie in state in the Minnesota Capitol rotunda on Friday while the man ...

The execution was carried out as calls grow to abolish the capital punishment following the acquittal of the world’s longest-serving death-row inmate Iwao Hakamada last year.

California currently has 574 individuals on death row, the most in the nation, while being the most populous U.S. state.

Authorities say Boelter shot and wounded Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman, and his wife, Yvette, at their home in Champlin before shooting and killing the Hortmans in their home in the northern ...

Now 55 years old, Barbour isn’t the only person who remains in Alabama’s prison system despite evidence suggesting he didn’t do the crime. Alabama’s legal system has a complicated relationship with ...

If you’ve been following Alabama news for a few years, you remember the poop train, a controversy in Central Alabama that ...

Japan used the death penalty for the first time in almost three years as it executed an individual known as the "Twitter killer," who was found guilty of killing and dismembering 9 people. The killer ...

Takahiro Shiraishi was executed for the killings in 2017 of nine victims, most of whom had posted suicidal thoughts on social ...

Takahiro Shiraishi was executed for the killings in 2017 of nine victims, most of whom had posted suicidal thoughts on social ...

Vance Boelter, who is accused of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers, faces six federal charges, including multiple counts of ...

A former federal prosecutor said a media leak in the Bryan Kohberger murder case has the potential to take the death penalty ...