Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

Anne Taylor asked the judge in a slew of motions to remove capital punishment as an option using the same legal playbook that ...

The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.

Calvin Crew, accused of kidnapping and killing an Uber driver in Monroeville, will not face the death penalty.

Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing two people and injuring six more in a mass stabbing on the Las Vegas Strip should a jury convict him, the 8 News Now ...

The man accused of the shooting deaths of two people in Bloomfield, Neb. in early 2024 could still face the death penalty ...

In a historic move, Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, following a decision by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Once sentenced to death himself, Mnangagwa's decision marks a significant shift in ...

The death penalty remains on the table for the man accused of fatally shooting two men at a Bloomfield bowling alley last ...

President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row. More than 2,000 others remain on ...

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved a law that abolishes the death penalty in the southern African state ...

Outgoing North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on Tuesday announced 15 commutations of the death penalty to life in prison ...

Opinion: If you want to deter death penalty crimes, work to encourage more citizen cooperation with law enforcement; seek to end the huge shortage of forensic laboratories and forensic personnel ...