A memo from Pam Bondi asked prosecutors to pursue the death penalty for groups including immigrants illegally residing in the ...

Undocumented immigrants convicted of first-degree murder or raping children would face mandatory death sentences, under bills ...

The Alabama House of Representatives voted 86-5 for the bill that would allow prosecutors to pursue the death penalty when an ...

Connecticut companies would be banned from selling drugs used in capital punishment under bill opposed by state hospitals.

I am grateful to Connecticut for banning the death penalty, but it is deeply troubling to me that Connecticut companies are ...

A federal judge in Buffalo has ruled that a hearing will be held later this year to determine whether the 19-year-old Tops ...

Georgia remains the only state where it must be proven “beyond a reasonable doubt,” the highest standard of proof in law.

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

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

Sajjan Kumar, 79, has been found guilty in a case involving the killings of Jaswant Singh and his son Tarundeep Singh in Saraswati Vihar on November 1, 1984. He now faces a maximum of death penalty ...

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

A memo directs DOJ staff to pursue the death penalty for undocumented immigrants who have been charged with capital crimes, ...