In Florida, capital crimes include homicide, controlled-substance trafficking and sexual abuse of young children.

Louisiana will resume executions after a 15-year hiatus, forging ahead on plans set in motion last spring to carry out death sentences using nitrogen hypoxia.

The Florida Legislature was poised Wednesday to pass what Gov. Ron DeSantis is hailing as the strongest legislation to combat ...

An Osceola judge delayed the sex crimes trial of Stephan Sterns as prosecutors prepare a response to efforts to throw out ...

TALLAHASSEE — Florida lawmakers want to make the death penalty mandatory for immigrants in the country illegally who are convicted of capital crimes, a change that would remove the jury from the ...

Arizona has set an execution date for a convicted killer on death row, marking the state's return to the death penalty after ...

Those housed in the O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a ...

Bills changing unemployment requirements, imposing the death penalty and requiring parental consent for vaccines passed the ...

The Louisiana Legislature approved the use of nitrogen gas executions last year, following Alabama's implementation of the ...

This is the eleventh installment in a series of articles intended to provide the reader with a very high-level overview of ...

PHOENIX — The state is set to conduct an execution next month, its first in two years. In an order late Tuesday, the Arizona ...

Raymond Lee Oyler set a fire that killed five firefighters in 2006. The California Supreme Court will decide if he remains on death row, writes Robin Epley of The Sacramento Bee.