Matt Mangino, former Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, district attorney and expert on capital punishment, says Bryan Kohberger's defense is facing an uphill battle in their fight to have the death ...

News coverage of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson's stalled lethal injection raises questions about Texas executing the ...

In the U.S., individuals can face the death penalty even when their guilt is not proven beyond a reasonable doubt. A ...

The American Civil Liberties Union joins law firms to argue that capital trial juries in Kansas are racially discriminatory.

South Carolina’s death penalty law is unevenly applied. Some horrific killers get life sentences, while those who commit ...

Richard Moore was sentenced to death in 2001 by a nearly all-white jury for a robbery gone bad following a trial that lasted ...

Iran has executed a Jewish citizen convicted of murdering another man following a personal dispute. It was a rare case of an execution of member of a religious minority in the predominately Muslim ...

The filings came in response to objections earlier this month from state prosecutors who want capital punishment for ...

A local court here on Monday awarded capital punishment to a convict in a case of rape and gruesome killing of a minor girl ...

Junior doctors in Kolkata are demanding strict action from the CBI and capital punishment for those involved in the rape and ...

In the wake of a tragic rape and murder case at RG Kar Medical College, junior doctors are calling for CBI action and the ...

In the wake of the rape and murder case at Kolkata's R.G. Kar Medical College, junior doctors have called for the Central ...